WRATH TO COME
BEFORE THE DELUGE. By Mark Aldanov. Jonathan Cape. HIS novel describes the Russia of the late 19th Century and is in some sort a political history of those times. When one considers its author’s intention to create a sort of animated chronicle of various phases of Russian liberalism, it is surprisingly palatable, though often rather diffuse. The intimate glimpses of so many figures famous in history-Gladstone, Bismarck, the Tsar Alexander IIl-are carried off rather better than one would have predicted. What is less satisfying is the account of theemotional fortunes of the main characters, although the central theme of the efforts of nihilists to assassinate the Tsar, finally successful, helps to bind into a whole a book which remains most brilliant in the parts. Perhaps the chief benefit of the present paper shortage is that people write short books: the 500 pages of this novel sometimes remind us of the tedium that lurked in the massive productions of the day be-
| fore yesterday. A
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 18
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169WRATH TO COME New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 18
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