Volume 1, Number 7 · November 28, 1963
Dissenting Opinion
By John Gross
A World More Attractive
by Irving Howe
Horizon, 320 pp., $6.50
Mr. Howe has taken his title from Trotsky, who once wrote that 'in my eyes authors, journalists, and artists always stood for a world that was more attractive than any other.' Whatever Trotsky himself may have had in mind, the phrase as it appears on Irving Howe's title page strikes one as double-edged. It suggests that literature both presents a more attractive world in itself and provides an incitement towards making the real world a more attractive place than it now is. For Mr. Howe, as a socialist, is unmistakably committed to the world which is the world of all of us.
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