THE LAST ROMANTIC

by William Orton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 18, 1937

This is a difficult book to place. It really isn't a novel at all. And yet -- since presumably the central figure is imaginary -- it isn't biography. But it might be classified as symbolic biography in fiction form, a thinly disguised attempt to rationalize a youth who evades responsibility, who escapes facing reality, who is only half successful in various artistic fields, by endowing him with the cloak of a ""romantic"". The failure of the attempt lies in the fact that it is all a build-up; the author stating that thus and so are the case, but the figure of Michael emerging as a lay figure who never comes to life.

Pub Date: Feb. 18, 1937

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1937

Categories: FICTION