AN INTERPRETIVE RECORD OF
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Like Barb,llion's Journal, it is more than literature, it is the
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CRIPPLED GIANT, in which Milton Hindus, who teaches
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in Brandeis University, gives an account of his 23·days
interview in Denmark with Celine, author of
Journey
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to the End of the Night,
and Europe's most eccentric
anti·semite.
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This
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publisher
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is still will·
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ing to bet his
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colleagues that,
To settle a doubt in his own mind as to the liter·
ary ethics of such an attack, the author s,nt mim·
eographed copies of his manuscript to Alfred
Kazin, Mark Van Doren, William Carlos Wil–
liams, Sidney Hook, Henry Miller and a
doz,n other literary men.
The response was immediate and re–
assuring. Critical opinion following the
the book's appearance in print was
equally gratifying.
"It
is
a raw, stinging document,
one that slaps the mind as it
kicks the stomach,"
wrote Thomas
Sugrue in the N. Y.
Herald.
Tribune.
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having invested
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a small fortune in
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the publishing and
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advertising of what
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,fit
is so far mainly a suc-
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cesS of critical esteem
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figures, the literary year
"One of the strangesl
stories of the last decade,"
was the verdict of Cary
McWilliams.
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1950 will
be
remembered in
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half a century, if at all, as
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the year of the.
publicatio~
of
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Cl
The Crippled Giant
by Mtlton
"To tell the truth
se,med to him the
only relevant res·
{lonse and with th,
greatest t,nder.
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Hindus.
There is already a French edi·
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tion of the book in Paris, and Ger·
in
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offing. If you can't get it at
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man Austrian and Swiss editions are
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your bookseller's, send us $2 and it will
ness and hon.
esty he has
done
so,"
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go out to you immediately
postpaid.
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said Leslie
Fiedler in
The New
Leader.
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CRIPPLED
GIANT by Milton Hindus.
I
may
return
the
book
for
full
credit
if,
after reading it.
I
do not
wish
to
keep
it.
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