Comfort, Alex(ander) | Comfort, Alex(ander) 1920–
Comfort, Alex(ander) 1920–
Comfort is a Renaissance man—a poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, essayist, physician, researcher, lecturer, and an advocate of pacifism and freedom in sexual love. He is an authority on the biology of aging, a fact which may account for the often-present confrontation with death in his poetry. His concerns are many, however, and he is able to range from a novel expressing the need for peaceful protest to a manual—The Joy of Sex. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
[No Such Liberty] is a good novel as novels go at this moment, but the motive for writing it was not what Trollope or Balzac, or even Tolstoy, would have recognised as a novelist's impulse. It was written in order to put forward the "message" of pacifism, and it was to fit that "message" that the main incidents in it were devised. I think I am also justified in assuming that it is autobiographical, not in the sense that...
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