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When it first appeared in 1945, Prater Violet caused a fury of critical speculation and acclaim. Edmund Wilson called it "a deliberate historical parable," and Diana Trilling's Nation review said, "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time... It is a book written in the author's own person, yet utterly without ego; it is a novel about movie writers which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist; it is a book without a political moral, but a profound moral-political statement; it is gay, witty, sophisticated, but wholly responsible."
About: "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.
About: Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry.
About: Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna.
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