Volume 22, Number 6 · April 17, 1975

Whittaker Chambers and 'The Middle of the Journey'

By Lionel Trilling

The impending reissue in England of The Middle of the Journey so many years after it was first published makes an occasion when I might appropriately say a word about the relation which the novel bears to actuality, especially to the problematical kind of actuality we call history. The relation is really quite a simple one but it is sometimes misunderstood.



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