Twentieth Century Writers Film Clips
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| Author Christopher Isherwood Speaking... |
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A Review of Saroyan's 'The Adventures of Weasley Jackson'
(Script Magazine, 1947)
The 1947 review of William Saroyan's (1908 - 1981) war novel, "The Adventures of Weasley Jackson":"What makes [the novel] good is what makes Saroyan good. In this case his wonderful satires on army life, wangling , and the weird fauns of his private universe. What makes it bad is the overdose of soliloquies, hymns and plain mutterings on love, death life and the appeasement of divine wrath by means of scapegoat."
| A Review of 'The Memorial' by Christopher Isherwood (Script, 1947)
A review of Christopher Isherwood's (1906 - 1986) semi-autobiographical novel, "The Memorial", which was placed in post-World War I Britain:
"The plot of "The Memorial" can be discussed very briefly: it doesn't have one. It doesn't need one. It is entirely fascinating, not a dramatic sequence of events, but an increasingly intimate understanding of a state of affairs...The book proceeds, not forward in time, but inward by layers. Isherwood has a wonderful gift of getting inside people."
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