SOURCE: West, Ray B., Jr. “The Unities of Modern Fiction.” Kenyon Review 17, no. 2 (spring 1955): 326-29.
In the following excerpted review of several new novels, West says that Nemerov's Federigo, or the Power of Love has a good deal of wit but is too heavy-handed and surrealistic.
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