mage
and
PHILIP RAHV
This volume of criticism by one of the
founders and editors of
Partisan Re–
view
will surely be of intrinsic interest
to all readers seriously concerned with
literature. Philip Rahv's point of view
as a literary critic is a complex one, not
to
be
summed up in a phrase, because
it encompasses and takes account of so
many different attitudes and alle–
giances. The reader will find here a
critical approach to the most divergent
and conflicting modem doctrines, such
as Marxism, psychoanalysis, and Exis–
tentialism.
Mr. Rahv is equally at home in Euro–
pean and American letters.
His
essays
on the search for experience in Amer–
ican writing and its division between
two polar types-the paleface and the
redskin-provide one of the frameworks
within which it
is
likely that a future
American criticism might operate.
It
is
likely, too, that Mr. Rahv's observa–
tions on the medium of the novel and,
in particular, his essay on the decline
of naturalism, will claim the attention
of alert students of modern fiction.
dea
lAMES
HAWTHORNE
TOLSTOY
DOSTOEVSKY
KAFKA
KOESTLER
MILLER
WOOLF
w.
C. WILLIAMS
.
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