THE
LIVING
NOVEL
A SYMPOSIUM
Edited by
Granville Hicks
The Contributors:
SAUL BELLOW
PAUL DARCY BOLES
JOHN BROOKS
RALPH .ELLISON
HERBERT GOLD
MARK HARRIS
WRIGHT MORRIS
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
HARVEY SWADOS
JESSAMYN WEST
Ten contemporary novelists
discuss the problems of their
craft and answer critics who
charge that fiction today is irre–
sponsible and decadent. The
results comprise a frank, hard–
hitting confirmation that the
novel in America today, far
from being moribund, is very
much alive - and kicking!
"To the public which
reads
and
does not merely
consume,
his
roster of contributors is a suf–
ficient rebuttal in itself ... They
make a lively noise and I would
like to hurl them broadcast at
the readers who keep telling
me ... that 'I never read fic–
tion'."-N.
Y. World-Telegram
and Sun.
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