Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1952 — Page 32

Konnr:

Tale of Tefror With Background | Of Realities

THE BROTHERHOOD OF FEAR. A novel By Robert Ardrey i York, Random House, $3, :

IF YOU WOULD like to take an excursion into the realm of terror, that experience awaits you in a new novel titled THE BROTHERHOOD OF FEAR by Robert Ardrey

(Random House, $3). This book is likely to keep your nerves tingling until you have reached ~—- - its final page. It was once possible to read 8 Rundred pay cent. such a book as this with the He ia neither comfortable feeling that the cir-| : Tumstances wers BE cd to pro-| 1A8gard, too quick or slow. He is vide thrills for the reader. But the man in the middle. This is no no such comfort is available here, |'°P8e" & world where the strong for the tale is very close to the survive, In. the process of our true circumstances existing in Natural selection, the outstanding large.areas of the world. The story is that of Willy Bryo,| who has long been a political prisoner "in. a police state very|yiiieqt much resembling the Soviet Union. | Willy's. offense is that, while a

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fallible. He is neither a cipher nor, | too stupid nor! too smart, too ambitious nor tool

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are exposed by their outstandinginess, and the gifted betrayed by their gifts. In our new evolution {it is the middling who are the Three generations from (now, Konnr will lead us all.”

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WHEN WILLY finally escapes the story of inmates of a Nazi TT aboard a foreign ship, a member horror camp. A of the secret police named Konnr guards and prisoners, ‘t is also if you were to know him, gets out. to capture him and, nota } far from the mainland; succeeds. executions, death chambers and But in returning their own ship|érematories, Is wrecked, Willy and Konnr are/with relentless realism. cast ashore on a small island in| habited by only 19 people. Willy leaves escapes again from- his- captor; pressed, but with an understand- INGS, edited by Ludwig @Goldand most of the remaining story|ing of the great ma is concerned with Konnr's efforts kind in to recapture him.

story

tale “of brutality, starvation,

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and it is written

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cireumstances of great'a magnificent addition to suffering. Before the

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Whatever your interests in art — practicing artist, student or one find : 1 D R A W- THE CONFIDENT YEARS. By Van Wyck Brooks.

jesty of man- scheider (Phaidon-Oxford, $8.50), your dark and library. It contains 200 illustraKonnr is killed and Willy, listed unholy background of a Nazitions ranging from incomplete .officlally as dead in the ship-prison camp, such human quali- sketches to.full compositions, It wreck, returns to the mainland ties as faith, hope, love and.great also contains an to fight the evil forces of dicta- heroism emerge quite naturally. drawings .by imitators and pu- - torship. There the story ends. P . f k. 3 Yet the overall product here is ortrait of | e an accurate description of a so- * olety in which comradeship has friends and influence people—on been wholly replaced by stark and behalf of Gen, Eisenhower—with naked fear. As a result all prog- his ress has been halted, and medio-| (Harper, ctity has subdued the outstand-/of the general, Gunther sees him mains a top best-seller” after a ing talents in every field. As anias a man of great charm and of whole year example, 1 close this review with(such absolute honesty ‘hat he Is/cago firm. the quotation of an official who is/misunderstood by 'politicians—a | evaluating the character of man who believes deeply in demo- brought out in Norway, continues cracy; a man with many talents! selling at the rate of 500 or 600 “When we are all gone, he willlyet one who is .properly humble copies a day in the United States, remain. His middlingness is in<land wholly modest. Maybe you according to the publisher.

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How Many

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Are Van Wyck Brooks?

ton, $6. By CARL VI(

After reading this, the fifth and last volume of Van |

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Wyck Brooks’ history of the writer in America, I am almost convinced that Van Wyck Brooks isn't an individual but

a literary trade name behind of 50. Surely one man could not have done the prodigious labor attributed to Mr. Brooks, . | Even though Mr. Brooks | (Harvard '09) has been around

KON-TIKI, published by Rand a long while, "it is difficult to re-

grasp that one man could have have read not only virtually] everything written by Americans, between 1800 and 1915, the period covered by the five volumes, but also could have had time to carefully weigh what he had read and then record his findings in the dignified, effortless prose in which he makes his expert appraisals. Ne ] The current volume, THE CONFIDENT YEARS, is, Amerfca’s literary history from 1885 until 1915 and I dare say will] be in greater demand than any of his previous volumes, includ=! ing even the hitherto most popular of all, THE FLOWERING OF,

my belief is that this is contemporary history which has touched | us all and treats those writers with whom most of us’ are familiar. Here we have the appraisals of Hemingway, Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg, - O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Eugene O'Neill, Edith Wharton, Bret Harte,

Ellen Glasgow, Jack Léndon, George Ade, Willa Cather—the list is large and I could use this alloted space

‘alone.

tephen Crane is only one of those whose work Mr. Brooks surveys at length. ’ Of Crane, Mr. Brooks writes: “It was THE RED BADGE OF; COURAGE that made Crane famous overnight, the white-headed boy of the Nineties in a dozen cir-| cles, the hero of editors, hostesses, reviewers, old soldiers and ‘the imen in the printing shops who set the book up in type and read the proofs. ‘ “What gave the book its immediate vogue? Its handling of one of the greatest of themes, the” novelty of its ‘treatment of war as a private sees it, “the little man” who had always been the pet of the American imagination as the officer and gentleman appealed to the imagination of! Europe.” . Of course, this volume will be controversial as have been the

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no absolutes in criticism, you may pay your $6 and take your choice. Mr. Brooks remains, to. the close of this volume, a man of faith—faith in ‘America and faith in the-validity of American tradition. Mr. Brooks ends by-saying he has placed his wager on faith, rather than on doubt. On the side of democracy’s angels, the Jeffersonian Brooks believes all of God's chilluns got wings if they'd only use them.

5 x el HOOSIER—Emily Kimbrough, | formerly of Muncie -and author of several humorous books, has written "Through Charley's Door," which Harper will publish Feb. 13. It is an account of her. experiences years ago as an employee of Marshall Field. & Co. in Chicago, and is bein promoted ' in connection wit that store's centennial this year.

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entertains and never insults the Passmore isnt intelligence, if any. that he hasn't an eye for beauty,

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want to take his novel in one ses- indicates.) sion to ascertain whether'the nar- The déceased, Nash, had made cellent rator, Tom Passmore, really does Mis wife promise that she would widow get the beautiful widow in the never reveal to his old parents in less plausible,

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