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Fiction in Review
Trilling, Diana | December 13, 1947 issue

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The article presents his view on the work of fiction in literature. The novel "Somewhere the Tempest Fell," by Josephine Herbst is a significant connection between an author's perception of life and her faults of performance. Herbst's gravest faults have their aspect of virtue, because they proceed from a sense of urgency and a zest for experience and an acceptance of life which are all but gone from modern writing. It is primarily about a mystery writer, Adam Snow, who under the pseudonym of George Wand has become a great popular success but who, in the middle of the war, suddenly wishes to reestablish himself in his own identity.

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SOMEWHERE the Tempest Fell (Book); HERBST, Josephine; FICTION; AUTHORS; WAR in literature; IDENTITY (Psychology)
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