Books
February, 1962
The hero of Robert Penn Warren's novel Wilderness (Random House, $4.95) is a Bavarian Jew whose given name, Adam, and deformed foot announce that he stands for guilty humanity in the large. Resolved to serve the Northern cause in the Civil War, Adam comes to America, where he surmounts obstacles and resists temptations -- only to find that each success in these tests is, in some way, a failure, each act of fidelity a desertion. Feeling totally devalued, he crosses at last the crucial river to th...
