Kay Boyle | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Kay Boyle.

Kay Boyle | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Kay Boyle.
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SOURCE: "There Is No Armistice," in New York Times Book Review, November 17, 1960, pp. 4, 26.

In the following review of Generation Without Farewell, Peterson, a radio commentator and critic, credits Boyle with creating a profound account of postwar Germany which reflects the conditions from multi-perspectives.

Always a lyrical troubling writer, Kay Boyle has never written more poignantly, never come closer to absolute pitch than in this new novel. Generation Without Farewell, set in Germany during the American military occupation. Miss Boyle has drawn before, for a number of stories, upon her experience as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker in post-war Germany. In this latest book she has gone beyond the obvious ironies implicit in the attempt of the victor to establish a modus vivendi with the vanquished, beyond the frontiers of nationality, to probe the vulnerability of the modern soul. She does not soften or cheapen her tone by...

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