Better Than Realism
V HEN young Paul saw the enemy airman, leaning out, laughing at the refugees under his machine-gun fire, he realised, suddenly, what this power is which has driven him from his home and destroyed it-a power-.aimed against everything that is wrapped in the meaning of home and country, everything that makes child or man love his own. " You don’t want any of us to have that," cries Paul. "You only want to make us have yours, You think you can make us give in. But we won't give in, ever." It’s not a realistic novel of the war, this; ‘almost it’s a fairy tale. But just because it is, the truth in it has a glow that realism cannot give.-(From a review of Robert Nathan’s "They Went on Together," broadcast by J. H. ©. Schroder, 3YA, December 9.) ~- -_--- -------
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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140Better Than Realism New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 5
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