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WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL, by C. F. Ramuz; Eyre and Spottiswoode. English price, 8/6. ‘THis is the story of what happened when a mountain peak fell, an outsized rock avalanche, into a valley, and covered up the pasture, cattle, huts and (continued on page 19)
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_(continued from. page 17) herdsmen who were there. Those concerned weré, of course, far more than the herdsman who were buried. Most of these, in fact, do not appear as individuals at all;. though one of them is the central figure who survives and returns to the world of the living. A story such as this could have been told in many ways; there was ample scope for a writer to let himself go. M. Ramuz has high standards and has resisted the temptation. He writes with restraint, simply and economically, yet creates a,suspense which in the second part of the book is sustained and at times intense. Again, he creates a really living atmosphere of place-in the hut, for instance, where the story opens, with the two men talking before the fire; and in the valley after the disaster has left utter desolation. sant FE y, If there is a weakness in the book, it is in the ending. This might have been different, or more convincingly handled.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 17
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