Volume 20, Number 18 · November 15, 1973
Episodes in the Class War
By Karl Miller
Antoine Bloyé
by Paul Nizan, translated by Edmund Stevens
Monthly Review Press, 250 pp., $6.95
The Upstart
by Piers Paul Read
Lippincott, 345 pp., $7.95
These novels—the first dates from the early Thirties, the second is new—present episodes in the class war which has long been attributed to the societies of the West. Nizan's novel takes as its central character a man who is a traitor to his class, who delivers himself over to his masters' will and to the dogmas of work, duty, and authority, who sells out, perceives that he has done so, and stews in his own misgivings. Read's novel describes a cad who robs the rich and debauches their daughters, but ends in the arms of God, believing that from that point till his death, though he is still a young man, nothing of consequence will happen to him.
Review, 3771 words
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