THE TIME FOR REFLECTION
The delusively simple story told in "Down But Not Out".develops the unusual idea that unemployment may be beneficial or even agreeable. Peter Gogg, manager of a suburban grocer's shop, loses his job and is left a widower. He finds in himself a taste for solitude and an ability to enjoy himself on the money provided by public assistance; having tried to get work and failed, he discovers that he would sooner be unemployed, sooner be "an outcast and have his time his own, than be someone's slave for six pounds a week." • .
The book shows him discovering both himself and the outside world; viewing politics, taking literature, studying botany in the public gardens, attending lectures—in fact, enjoying leisure. It is a faintly ironical but not a dejected story, and though it tries to make the idea of unemployment tolerable, it certainly does not reflect a complacent point of view.
Twenty-five Germans who have emigrated to other countries were deprived of their German citizenship by a recent decree. Among them is Arnold Zweig^ author of "The Case of Sergeant Grischa." Zweig was accused of "belittling the spiritual and ethical values of German culture,"
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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196THE TIME FOR REFLECTION Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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