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The Color of Hergesheimer
Krutch, J. W. | November 22, 1922 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Bright Shawl," by Joseph Hergesheimer. In the book Hergesheimer revels in the brilliant exoticism with which he had previously only touched his picture here and there with brilliant contrast. The book contains very little of character drawing or of psychology. It is remarkable to what an extent readers are asked to take upon faith even the hero, a young man from the U.S. who goes to Cuba for his health but is seized by a youthful and romantic passion for Cuban liberty and the gorgeous Spanish dancer with whom he becomes involved, but readers do accept them because of the swiftness of events and the brilliance of the background against which they move.

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BRIGHT Shawl, The (Book); HERGESHEIMER, Joseph; EXOTICISM in literature; DANCERS; LIBERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; CUBA
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