Review of Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny - BrothersJudd.com.
Herman Wouk is a novelist in the tradition of the great English novelists of the nineteenth century; he is also a spiritual descendant of such American writers as James Fenimore Cooper, William.One hesitates to say this of a Jewish novelist--and I think it is fair to say that Wouk trades upon his religious background for his novels--but The Caine Mutiny has always struck me as somehow fascistic. For most of the book (and movie) the story seems like a pretty straightforward riff on Mr. Roberts (read Orrin's review): in this case, of course, it's Captain Queeg (even the name seems.Abraham Silver (1893-1963) was born in what is today Lithuania (then Poland) to an Orthodox Jewish family, the son and grandson of rabbis. The family settled in New York when he was nine years old. He first studied at the Orthodox Yeshivat Etz Chaim (now Yeshiva University), where he founded a Zionist youth club that later became Young Judea, America’s first Zionist youth organization.
Herman Wouk is a Pulitzer-Prize winning Jewish-American author who has written a number of bestselling novels including The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, the novel he dedicated to his firstborn son after he died in a tragic accident. The Caine Mutiny was published in 1951 and spent 17 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Summary: Character details from War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk. Leslie Slote: Leslie works in several places during the war. At the beginning of the book, he works in Switzerland as a political secretary. He continued to work for the state department until he decided to confront his bravery.
To review favorably a work by Herman Wouk, America’s only prominent Orthodox Jewish novelist, is to break with long-standing Commentary precedent. Ever since his early novel City Boy was panned How This Magazine Wronged Herman Wouk - Michael Lewis, Commentary Magazine.
