Eiichi Yaminishi, November 26, 1963: Difference between revisions

Now for the news of the serial. I’ve completed the first two installments and should have galleys of the first to send to you within a week. It’s fairly good so far but of course there are many difficulties and ambushes ahead. If I can keep the level up to the first two installments I think I will have however a novel we need not be ashamed of. The difficulty of course is the lack of time. An average of ten to fifteen thousand words a month is not too bad in itself, but the fact that one must do this every month does increase the strain. I would describe the novel to you but I have a natural reluctance for summary and indeed would prefer you to pick up the first installment with no sense at all of what is to come. So if you will be patient for a week I think your announcement will gain force from the fresh impact of the first installment on you. For the present, it may be enough to say that it will be a short novel (90 thousand words) in the nineteenth century tradition, to wit, it is concerned with good and evil, and its exploration will take the form of a narrative with a reasonably developed plot.

In any case, my dear friend, I await your reaction to the first installment of the novel. It is, by the way, to be called ''[[An American Dream]]'', and the first installment has the chapter title of ''The Harbors of the Moon''.