Volume 2, Number 1 · February 20, 1964
Season In Hell
By Stanley Kauffmann
Blood From the Sky
by Piotr Rawicz
Harcourt, Brace and World, 316 pp., $4.95
The Fanatic
by Meyer Levin
Simon and Schuster, 478 pp., $5.95
One reason for the foolishly deplored lack of great new novels is not, perhaps, the absence of great talents but that the great subjects are now too large. Tolstoy could, with one campaign, encompass the whole idea of war as he knew it, but could even Tolstoy have dealt with thermonuclear fate? If that is true of a bomb that would merely end the world and thus end all responsibilities, what shall be said of the act that withered a civilization's ethos but left it with responsibilities? What is a writer of fiction to do with the German mass murder of the Jews?
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