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Article « By Cozzens Possessed « Commentary Magazine(Dwight MacDonald)

In the Novel of Resignation, the highest reach of enlightenment is to realize how awful the System is and yet to accept iton its own terms. Because otherwise there wouldn’t be any System. Marquand invented the genre, Sloan Wilson carried it on inThe Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, and Herman Wouk formulated it most unmistakably inThe Caine Mutiny. Wouk’s moral is that it is better to obey a lunatic, cowardly Captain Queeg, ev...