The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust reviewed
A critical review of The Sweet Cheat Gone, third act reading as part of Remembrance of Things Past. The piece argues the novel completes Proust’s autobiographical method, linking memory with events, and echoing Symbolist tastes while stressing its need for prior volumes from Swann’s Way to The Captive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proust
Mademoiselle Albertine
Marcel
Héredia
Hérédia
Antony
Odette
Olter
Faubourg St. Germain
Swean
Beauty and The Bystander Review Merge In Dense Critique
A review contrasts Parkhurst's humane art interpretation with Gorki's The Bystander, faulting its sprawling realism and verbose, pedantic dialogue. It critiques Clim Samghin as a mean, self impressed figure and questions the American appetite for such a long, diffuse work from a great author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkhurst
Gorki
Turgenev
Tolstoi
Clim Samghin
Chekhov
Leonid Andreev
Humanism and America reviewed in Foerster anthology
Eleanor Tamagno surveys the Farrar and Rinehart volume edited by Norman Foerster, arguing the collection defends humanism against charges of un American romanticism. The essay highlights key figures like Babbitt More Eliot and Dreiser, notes internal disagreements, and credits the work with urging a fresh modern synthesis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Norman Foerster
Farrar and Rinehart
Maseheld
Plato
Cicero
Horace
Matthew Arnold
Irving Babbitt
Paul Elmer More
Robert Shafer
Professor Shafer
Harry Hayden Clark
Anderson, Dreiser
Tewis
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Charles Boni, Inc
Maxim Gorki
Bernard Guilbert Guerney
Jonathan Cape
Harrison Smith
Adeline Tinter
Harcourt
Uty
Helen Huss Parkhurst
Brace
Anna Taranto
Valentine Snow
Humanism
Eleanor Tamagno
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