RUTHLESS MODERN NOVELS
Lord David Cecil'expressed a view which is/now fairly common when he told the Associated Conference at Torquay that he found serious fiction today "a somewhat: de-pressing-business." Reviewers, he said, no longer, recommended : novels as beingb amusing or exciting, but described them as "grim," "realistic," and "ruthless." «
• Probably-he felt that: an afterdinner speech was; inappropriate for analysing this tendency; but if^he:h&d done so it may be supposed that he would have found* the authors themselves only partly to blame. If many novels today are ' "grim" and "ruthless,"' so is' the 'world' that produced them. *Nb doubt i writer should, arid may, lift himself above the-disillusion-ed moodof his own age, for'it has befen done in other generations. But it is not tempting to produce a comedy of mariners or a tale of romantic adventures while the bombs are falling or threatening to fall, remarks a writer in the London "Times."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 26
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RUTHLESS MODERN NOVELS
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 26
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