Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976
Suntan
By V.S. Pritchett
Children of the Sun
by Martin Green
Basic Books, 469 pp., $15.00
The subtitle of Martin Green's book is A Narrative of 'Decadence' in England After 1918. (Thanks for the inverted commas.) It is really a curious mixture of anthropological theory and a Baedeker of the main cults or 'gangs' that have succeeded one another in English literature for forty years after the national disaster in 1918. And since this is the period when Great Britain ceased to be a world power and when a wealthy, brilliant, and traditional governing class lost its will and its money, and virtually gave up control of English life (and about a third of the earth's surface), Mr. Green slips in dramatic headlines about the state of society to which literature may be linked.
Review, 2637 words
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