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In order to become part of such a world (as he tentatively tried
to describe it at the end, the happy end, of his third novel
Amerika)
he first had to anticipate the destruction of a misconstructed world.
Through this anticipated destruction he carried the image, the
supreme figure of man as a model of good
will,
of man the
fabricator
mundi,
the world-builder who can get rid of misconstructions and
reconstruct his world. And since these heroes are only models of good
will
and left in the anonymity, the abstractness of the general, shown
only in the very function good will may have in this world of ours,
his novels seem to have a singular appeal as though he wanted to say:
This man of good
will
may be anybody and everybody, perhaps even
you and me.
Contributors
HANNAH ARENDT is the author of
Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin
and has contributed to
The Contemporary Jewish Record
and other
periodicals.... ELIZABETH BISHOP, who lives
in
Key West, has pub–
ished fiction and poetry in previous issues of PARTISAN REVIEW. ...
SAuL RosENZWEIG teaches psychology at the University of Pittsburgh
and is on the staff of Western State Psychiatric Hospital. ... NicoLA
CHIAROMONTE has written articles and reviews for
Politics, The New
R epublic,
and other magazines. He lives in New York City. ... WYLIE
SYPHER, of the English department at Simmons College, contributed an
essay, "The Metaphysicals and the Baroque" to the Winter 1944 issue
of PARTISAN REVIEW.... OscAR HANDLIN is an instructor of history
at Harvard University.... GERTRUDE JAEGER is a young writer on phi-
losophical subjects who lives in Chicago.. . . RICHARD CHASE, a frequent
contributor to PARTISAN REVIEW, is in the English department of Co–
lumbia University.. . ·. HARVEYi BREIT is a poet and critic whose work
has appeared in many literary periodicals.... ANDREws· WANNING
teaches English at Harvard University. . .. RoBERT GoRHAM DAVIs
has published fiction and criticism in the
New Yorker
and other maga–
zines. He is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College. . . .
GERTRUDE BucKMAN is a young writer who lives in New York City and
works for the Pantheon Press. . . . IsAAc RosENFELD is working on a
novel that will be published next year by Dial Press.... DANIEL BELL
is managing editor of
The N ew L eader.
...
DAVID T. BAZELON is a young
political writer now living in New York City. . .. KATHERINE DE M.
HosKINS wrote a weekly book column for
The Washington Post
and is
now preparing her first volume of poetry for early publication by the
Cummington Press.
