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In the German Manner
Krutch, Joseph Wood | July 31, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Class Reunion," by Franz Werfel. "Class Reunion" tells its story in a manner deceptively simple which succeeds, nevertheless, in maintaining a perpetual suspense and in getting the maximum of dramatic effect out of every incident. The whole work is suffused with an atmosphere of hardly definable foreboding and replete with a kind of psychological analysis which is not calm or scientific but extravagant, excited, and portentous. Perhaps there is something a little hysterical about its power, but the power to absorb and hold the attention is indubitably there. The translation by Whittaker Chambers is excellent.

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CLASS Reunion (Book); WERFEL, Franz; CHAMBERS, Whittaker; BOOKS & reading; REALISM; NONFICTION
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