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(By Stewart T. Deach)
Among students of the 'preent-day
fiction, there is perhaps no more in-
teresting question than that which,
concerns itself with the trend which
literature is taking at the present
time, and search as one may, it seems
almost impossible to state any set rule
or to Wiake any definite statement
which shall have a concrete basis.
One critic may say with perfect im-
punity that it is a movement decidely
in favor of realism and may cite -ex-
amples to substantiate his claim; an-
other may refute 414 claim in Mfvor of
romanticism, and find just as many
fictional works to prove his own
claim. Still another may affirm that
it is neithex of these, but a third-
perhaps a combination of the two, and
e tmples which he may bring for-
ward will show that he may have
good grounds for his statement,
Proves Compromise
Which of these, then, is correct?
What direction is modern fiction tak-
ing today? The question, must iemain
unanswered, for the evidence seems
not to rest with any set school of
style, but rather, it appears to lean
to this thirde.school which is in a
measure a compromises between the
two, but .which nevertheless, also
seems to present problemswhich are
not included in any of these other
groups.
Taking up the first of these schools,
that of realism, it must appeal that
there is a' great deal of evidence to be
brought- up in its t favor, perhaps
largely due to the war, andcthe social
and moral crises which have arisen as
its complements. Russia continues to
give us those surprisingly pessimistip
and realistic novels of internal revo-
lution and strife. France, tottering in
uncertainty between vivid and unques-
tioned realism and heroic romanti-
cism, seems to have a preference,,
nevertheless, ando a distinct leaning
towards the former, while English
literature, passing from a period of
spontaneous, war-inspired fiction, ap-
pears to be reverting in a great meas-.
ure to nineteenth century realism,
and yet it is in the literature of our
own language that we hear the whis-
perings of changes and transitions to
come.
It is apparent that a transition is in
progress, though whether or not it
will bring with it the ennobling aspect
which the British'Ndramatist foretells,
remains to be seen. John Drinkwater,
we may count in this movement. His
poems and plays distinctly present
the aspect of a new thought whicht is
creeping into the works of contem-
porary English writers, and it seems
that it is to England that we must
look for the settlement of this still
,undefined thought upon a more con-
crpte basis.
Not General
'--True it is, that not all British writ-
ers have caught the trend of this new
movement. There is Hugh Walpole's
"Jeremy" wrich distinctly belies Dun-
sany's words, in its purely realistic
tale of the life of the lad whose name
forms its title, and the works of
Stephen McKenna, too, mark almost
a renaissance of the style of the last
Century. In fact, it seems that we
must look to some few of the English
dramatists, to glive form to thi 'plea
for a more artistic fiction..
But does it not seem apparent that
conditions and the trend of modern
thought must do much in shaping the
style of contemporary fiction, ar'd-that
we must not reckon without the pres-
ent* universal interest in psychology
when we attempt to predict the turn
which matters are apt to take? As
yet, it has appeared in but a few fic-
tional efforts, notably those of the
"short-story" length, but with some of
the greatest minds of our day consid-
ering the problem, and attempting to
find in it a solution of the various'
"spiritual" phenomena which have
also been occupying our Attention, we
may confidently expect its influence
to be felt on future worts of fiction.
Maurice Maeterlinck, the noted Bel-
gian writer, who recently paid a visit
to our country, has becowle one of the
interested investigators of psychic
phenomena, and from his pen, it seems
that soon we shall have something
wich shall bear along this line.
In Transltion.
After even the mnost superficial con-
sideration of he problem, it appears
that we are in the midst of a period
of transition and that something defi-
nite and concrete must appear F within
the next few years. What it will be,
at this early stage is impossible to
foretell, and we can only assume the
attitude of "watchful waiting," antici-
pating with interest the coming of a
literature which shall be distinctly a
product of our own age and thought.
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