Volume 1, Number 6 · November 14, 1963
Three Novels
By Robert M. Adams
The Will
by Harvey Swados
World, 384 pp., $4.95
Cause for Wonder
by Wright Morris
Atheneum, 272 pp., $4.50
Confusions
by Jack Ludwig
N.Y. Graphic Society, 276 pp., $4.95
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience—they're two phases in the alternating current of American literature, distinctively American only as American innocence is milkier and American experience blacker than in more homogenized and blended cultures. The contrast gives special power as a fictional theme to the random adventures of an innocent, a wandering sheet of blank paper on whom life scribbles its comic, smutty messages. All three of the novels under review represent variations, more or less free and fancy, on this basic theme.
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