Radical Responses to the The Great Depression

The Hollow Men.
Michael Gold.
New York: International Pub., 1941.

Mike Gold was the Communist Party's most talented writer, who attempted to be an American Gorky; Jews Without Money, a novel based on his upbringing on the Lower East Side, is a minor classic. In the essays of The Hollow Men, Gold, the puritan and partisan, praises social realism and the young writers affiliated with the Communist Party, attacks the intellectuals who have deserted it because of their support for the "imperialist war" against Hitler, and once again takes up the cudgel against decadence personified by Thornton Wilder.

	RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION Radical Novels
		The Hollow Men. Michael Gold. New York: International Pub., 1941. Mike Gold was the Communist Party's most talented writer, who attempted to be an American Gorky; Jews Without Money, a novel based on his upbringing on the Lower East Side, is a minor classic. In the essays of The Hollow Men, Gold, the puritan and partisan, praises social realism and the young writers affiliated with the Communist Party, attacks the intellectuals who have deserted it because of their support for the "imperialist war" against Hitler, and once again takes up the cudgel against decadence personified by Thornton Wilder.