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Weller's book has neither, and it soon becomes clear that one cannot
expect the usual novelistic pleasure from it. For it is really a document,
a chronicle.
Weller went to Greece as a correspondent and came back, as he
remarks of one of his characters, unfitted for simplicity. Like so many
other receptive Americans, he discovered Europe, and it is to his great
credit that he fell in love with Greece when it was at its nadir, sick and
flayed.
The Crack in the Column
is suffused with this love felt by a good
and decent man for a humiliated country, and while I am not one of
those who think a plenitude of emotion enough for a good novel, I have
been constantly surprised and pleased to see how well love does sustain
Weller's book, lending it a touching sort of chivalry. His Americans and
British are strictly cardboard and aspirin, but his Greek scepes are very
fine, especially for evocation of locale-Athens, the workers' quarters and
Kolonaki, its wealthy shameful suburb; the
andarte
mountain camps; thc
Stalinist meetings; the collaborators' camp. Two personalities live in the
book: Miltiades, a wry, weary underground worker who seems the very
personification of what one thinks of as Europe's qualities; and Loulides,
an old Stalinist functionary loyal because the CP is a "loop into the
unknown" and because he hates the aesthetes who flirt with it and leave
it. A "right-winger" suspect in the eyes of some CP leaders, Loulides
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