Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian

ISBN-13: 9780765808363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 152 str.

Arnold Beichman

Opis

Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouk's novels have strong plots, moralist outcomes, and active-essentially positive-characters. The new introduction serves to bring Wouk's work over the past two decades into the reckoning. Making extensive use of Wouk's personal papers and manuscripts as well as personal interviews with him, Beichman's focus is on the social and literary qualities of Wouk's work. In particular, he examines eight of Wouk's twelve novels, one of his three plays; and two moral tracts on Judaism.

Spis treści

1: Early Influences; 2: A Good Start: Aurora Dawn; 3: Caribbean Carnival: A Tragicomedy; 4: The Boys of Summer; 5: The Caine Mutiny: Authority versus Responsibility; 6: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Marjorie Morningstar; 7: Youngblood Hawke: “Young Man from the Provinces”; 8: A Writer and His Ideas; 9: The Greatness: The War Novels; 10: Looking Forward: A Nonconclusion

O autorze

Arnold Beichman