LARGE CANVAS
HUMAN KELATIONS. By Rom Landau. Faber and Faber. English price, 16/-. R. LANDAU sets himself a large task when he takes as the thesis of his book the entire subject of the relationship between human creatures and its potentialities: Unfortunately, the author falls short of his aim-probably because he attempts too much. Although the style is attractive and easy, the manner is too discursive.+The author touches upon life, death and all that comes between, from the parental influences to art, from art to pubs, from pubs to fashions, from fashions to worship of the dead; and every piece is interesting, and, at times entertaining also. Then, from the objective viewpoint, he changes his approach for the subjective one and presents some problems of
personal adjustment. These problems are intensive, and Mr. Landau tells us what they are in few words, all nicely to the point. Yet there is anti-climax to the author’s promise to provide his own solution to all problems. For when he advances one, it is the age-old Biblical "Love .God-and gne another." One prefers to find that in the Bible.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 18
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187LARGE CANVAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 18
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