RACONTEUR (Wellington).
Sir,-Here’s one who concurs with the opinions expressed by T. V. Hindmarsh, with particular reference to those efforts that have appeared recently in The Listener. This kind of writing is nothing but a sort of dull reporting of even duller incidents such as that about a man who came back from Crete to dig up a door in his garden; the wonderful climax being that said door even had knobs on! Other stories have contained similar puerilities. After reading two or three volumes of the publication New Zealand New Writing, one comes to the conclusion that this modern short story writing can be labelled "after Katherine Mansfield-a long way after." : However, to conclude on a note of optimism and to stray slightly from the subject under discussion, we must recall the following bright lights that have appeared in our Antipodean literary firmament during the past decade, these being the collected essays of Monte Holcroft and John Mulgan’s fine novel Man Alone, which is worthy to be ranked with anything written overseas.
WILLIAM
SIMS
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 5
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176RACONTEUR (Wellington). New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 5
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