Volume 1, Number 11 · January 23, 1964
From Trollope to Updike
By Marvin Mudrick
The Sense of Life in the Modern Novel
by Arthur Mizener
Houghton, Mifflin, 291 pp., $5.00
'Books,' mourned E.M. Forster, 'have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the west.' Still, the harassed reviewer hopes, Forster may not have been talking about books of criticism. Take Arthur Mizener's book, for instance: it has a title and an index from which a great deal can be learned.
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