A QUEER BOOK
ALL THINGS BETRAY THEE, by Gwyn Thomas; Michael Joseph. English price, @ 10/6. ‘A ROMANTIC novel with its scene set in early 19th Century Wales, it combines a number of. elements not always found in the same work — ‘symbolism, eloquent dialogue, violence and unashamed yearnings for those far-off hills, forever green, to which the heart is so easily, and so unrewardingly, lifted up. The romanticism is facile. The conflict -between enclosing landlords plus faces-of-the-poor-grinding ironmasters and the People-is phoney, a revision of history in terms of a partisan view of the present or the recent past. And yet the book has a subdued success. Mr. Gwyn Thomas batters his way through his own misty visions to an ending, if not shapely, at least coherent. The flashes of wild poetry in the mind and speech of the chief character have a certain truth and a disordered beauty. No one weaild call thie 4 cnod navel? T cannot
call it a bad one.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 13
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165A QUEER BOOK New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 13
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