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"'Politics and the Novel'. . .will fascinate readers of both history and literature, for it throws revealing light on the subject from many new angles, showing what happens when great novelists depict the reciprocal pressures of political ideology and character. In sustained essays on Dostoevsky, Conrad, Henry James, Malraux, Silone, Koestler, Orwell, and in other sections on Hawthorne, Stendhal and Turgenev, Irving Howe makes a profound and original contribution, not only to the understanding of the novel, but to the understanding of the forces, creative and political, which have shaped the consciousness of twentieth-century man." |
