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"The Doctors, published in November last, was an almost immediate best seller running close, for a time, to Not As a Stranger. While we were not in the cheering section of critics, we do not hesitate to reverse judgment when it comes to The Healing Oath, which seems to us an infinitely finer book and one meriting all the success it had in Europe as volume three of the Soubiran trilogy (The Doctors here combining volumes one and two). Where The Doctors depended on the morbid side of medical training plus an undue stress on the sexual amenities of off-student hours, The Healing Oath has the warmth and tenderness, as well as the stark realism, of a country doctor's practice. Occasionally, shock...
Contents: Definitions: Basic Qualities, Border-line Cases, Formal Objections; History and Evolution; Mimetics: Editorial Functions, External Form, Dates and Days; Verisimilitude: Start to Finish, Likely Stories, Narra-tease?; Parody; The Character of the Diarist: Life Sentences, Daily Mirrors, Now and Then; Appendix A: Titles of diary novels studied in translation; Appendix B: English titles of French diary novels mentioned in the text; Notes; Bibliography; Index^R
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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