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Literature at the very front rank
By Christopher H
If this is the same territory as existentialism, which was emerging in Occupied Paris as she was writing, Carson McCullers's second novel has much in common with Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity and Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, those agonised tales of psychological malaise and decay in pre-WW1 Austria. Like those tales, her setting is a provincial military base in peacetime which, through numbing routine and a lack of stimulus, generates a hot-house atmosphere for those stationed there. And despite a surface cheerfulness, her characters are deeply unhappy people: despite the constant talk, there is almost no communication between them.Carson McCullers works with six characters, none especially perceptive or intelligent people, all of whom feel that life has let them down. And, when put together, these individuals relentlessly drive each other up the wall, deliberately playing on each other's nerves. We quickly learn there are unspoken tragedies behind it all: like the death of an infant child which they don't speak about. Unconfronted grief scars this tale.Tennessee Williams praised this 1941 book highly as the work of a great artist. It is an assessment I agree with. Williams even felt this astonishingly accomplished work was a core text in forming the Southern Gothic (it sits alongside William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor) because the book revolves around that intuition, that sense of "an underlying dreadfulness in modern experience." Then add to the psychological depth of the book, the quality of the prose. Each of McCullers's economical sentences is a wonder of concision - a precisely cut stone that has been uniquely shaped to slot into its place. The writing is just so deft, so tasty.A truly marvellous novel. This is literature at the very front rank.

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A Fine Southern Gothic Tale
By M. Dowden
Carson McCullers was always a fine exponent of Southern Gothic, and although we think of her being quite popular in her day it has to be admitted that this particular short novel came in for a lot of bad press and reviews. The reason for this is perhaps it hit a bit too close to home for some.Taking place on an army base in the Deep South we are told in the first paragraph the identities of the main characters and that a murder happens. Perhaps something that some may find off putting, but go with it, because at this stage we don’t know who will be killed or why, and not until right up near the end do we actually know. A crime novel in reverse in a way with the murder coming as the finale, although is it the only crime we read of?In the main then the story centres on two married officers, living next door to each other with their wives, and a private who looks on. Dysfunction plays a major role here as you would expect from this genre, and we have cuckoldry, open adultery and obsession. There is creepiness with the latter element as we also see stalking come into play.It is really great how within so few pages McCullers manages to convey really complex characters and their actions whilst holding you enthralled. This novel was controversial at the time it was first serialised and then published as it does reveal homosexual desires and feelings and has a strong erotic atmosphere throughout. I did feel that the character of Alison Langdon in many respects was based upon the author herself.An interesting read, and one that I haven’t delved into for a number of years I was surprised how much of this I remembered as I re-read it again. Many authors would take two or three times the length in telling this tale, which shows the skills of Carson in her brevity.

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Never would she forget that soldier's face...
By Eileen Shaw
A barracks in peace-time is the setting. I would guess (no time period specified) this is set in the 1900s, before the First World War. But because this is an American town and I am reporting on the book, not the film (which bombed at the box office) I can’t be more specific. The main characters are Captain Penderton and his wife Leonora, and her lover Major Morris Langdon who is married to Alison. It’s an overheated tale as Penderton becomes obsessed with an enlisted man, Private Ellgee Williams and the undertones of homosexuality are emphasised by Williams’ provoking habit of riding the horses while he is naked. This is a short book 125 pp., but it is remarkable for the beauty of the writing. McCullers leaves many things unspoken, but the atmosphere is sultry. Meanwhile Ellgee enters the house of Captain Penderton and watches Leonora sleeping. This act of voyeurism has implications, but they are not acted upon. There is a culminating scene in which Ellgee is caught and the final violence is perpetrated. There are echoes in this book of The Member of the Wedding, her first and most loved book, when a young girl imagines that she will form part of the wedding service and even go away with the young couple. In this book, however, it is young Ellgee, who has been fed all sorts of ugly nonsense about the corrupt nature of women, whose passionate nature is tradduced. This is sensuality and violence in this novel, but at heart it is sad, if not mordant. In some ways it lacks agency, because of the lack of fulfilment in the emptiness of these rich lives that remain unfulfilled.

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