Abstract

Fiction in Our Time

The article presents information on the book "Modern Fiction," by Dorothy Brewster and Angus Burrell. The authors of the book thoroughly know the field of the modern novel, and this novel moves with the ease and grace that come of that perfect mastery. The stress here is on the technique of the novel, the only problem in fact that the student of a literary genre can soundly set himself. The essays aims at defining the technical distinctiveness of various fiction writers, so that, taken in the sum, they give a most informing picture of the evolution of the novel during these past fifty years. The authors are concerned to be sound rather than striking, and one notes that their formulas are for the most part the ones that have best withstood the test of criticism at large.