ABSTRACT
Farrell (1904–79), the prolific American novelist, is best known for his trilogy of naturalistic novels about a hero from Chicago named Studs Lonigan which he wrote during the early 1930s. As an indictment of social and economic inequalities in America, it bears comparing to Dos Passos's U.S.A. Farrell had stated his political creed (an Americanized version of Marxism) in A Note on Literary Criticism in 1936. In this review he takes issue with critics of Adventures of a Young Man who he felt had responded to Dos Passos's politics instead of his art.
