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Pseudo-Historical Fiction
Fadiman, Clifton P. | September 11, 1929 issue

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The article presents information about the book The Rebels, written by Alfred Neumann. The book has been translated by Huntley Paterson. One of the reasons for Alfred Neumann's failure to gain an American audience commensurate with his merits is that he is touted as an historical novelist when he is not one at all. The treatment in The Rebels of the Carbonari uprising in central Italy from 1820 to 1830 is purposely oblique and fragmentary. Actually, the reader is not supposed to know what it is all about, to have any systematic understanding of the social and economic forces which presumably lie behind the movements of the personages.

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REBELS, The (Book); NEUMANN, Alfred; HISTORICAL fiction; CARBONARI; REVOLUTIONS; ITALY
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