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Closet Fiction

Sykes, Gerald | July 8, 1931 issue

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The article presents information about the book "Werther's Younger Brother." This is one of the first publications of that group of writers who prefer to remain anonymous-not only because they wish to establish "the art as the ideal, not the ego," but because, knowing that what they have to say is not what the general public wants, they hope, by forming a minority alliance, to create a special public of their own. Their scheme, in other words, is idealistic, and they hope it is practical too. "Werther's Younger Brother" is the notebook soliloquy of an unusually introspective Jewish student.

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WERTHER'S Younger Brother (Book); AUTHORS; JEWISH students; SOLILOQUY; MONOLOGUE; STUDENTS
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