The Revolutionary Saga by Howard Fast: the Novels about the American Revolution

Abstract

The article is devoted to the 4 novels by Howard Fast written about the American Revolution. In each of the novels analyzed in the article Fast poses the question whether and to what extend revolutionary violence could be put up with if necessary for the victory of the glorious cause. His final answer to this question is given in the last novel of the revolutionary sage- “The Proud and the Free”, in which he denounces revolutionary violence, violence over man once and for all, which accounts for his further disappointment with Marxist theory.