A man in front of destiny

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A man in front of destiny

Simply because of the fact that A Gentleman wrote the drift, the American Herbert Clyde Lewis (New York, 1909-1950) should appear in a prominent place in the universal history of literature. In that small masterpiece, his first novel, of Beckettian intensity, recounted the perpecia of Henry Preston Standish, who during his vacation slips on the stern of the ship in which he travels and falls to the Pacific, between Hawaii and Panama. This misfor…