SOURCE: "The Idea Men," in Man's Changing Mask: Modes and Methods of Characterization in Fiction, University of Minnesota Press, 1966, pp. 251-57.
In the following assessment of The Long March, Walcutt argues that the author had to sacrifice characterization and credibility to get his point across.
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