George Tabori Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Kenneth Fearing

Critical Essay by Kenneth Fearing

["Beneath the Stone" is] one of the most moving, convincing, poignant between-the-lines and in-back-of-the-lines novels to come out of the war. The author is a master of imagination. So much of this novel is so extremely fine that one feels the ending should be forgiven or, better yet, forgotten. It involves a conversation by Major von Borst and, although George Tabori has built up a background for it and has done so very well, the change-of-heart business is as obvious today as it was a decade ago or, for that matter, a century ago.

"Beneath the Stone" is distinguished, among less tangible qualities, for the dimensions of its conception and for the skill with which these distances are knit together….

The puzzle of war, the puzzle of the human or inhuman millions, receives a powerful answer in this book.

Kenneth Fearing, "Two Philosophers," in The New York Times Book...
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