THE AFRICAN SCENE
AN AMERICAN VISITOR, by Joyce Cary; Michael Joseph. English price, 8/6. HIS book, now reprinted in a uniform '" edition of Joyce Cary’s works, was first published in 1933. Since then, Cary has become known as a writer of unusual versatility; and some critics are beginning to suggest that he may be the one English novelist of his time who will reach greatness. An American Visitor is one of his African stories-less powerful, perhaps, than Mister Johnson, but on noaccount to be neglected by readers who want to know the full range of his tal-_ ent. Africa is not merely a background: | it is in the substance of the tale, so that | the jungle is around us as we read, and the characters-natives and Europeans-_ reveal the country as well as themselves | in all that they say and do. Bewsher, the British official who devotes himself to native welfare, is violently real; but all the people, have breath in them, and it is only afterwards, when the jungle fades like a coastline seen from a plane which turns seawards, that many readers will realise how skilfully the effects have
been wrougnt Dy sensitive writing
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 19
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197THE AFRICAN SCENE New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 19
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