Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, all the Museums and Women short stories permit the author to comment on fleeting issues which attract him, revealing some of himself to us even at these most casual aesthetic moments. When viewed against more consistent earlier collections like The Music School and Pigeon Feathers, this one doesn't...
A modest collection. Still, Walter Benjamin, unpacking his library, noted that "the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books." And there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up...
Scintillating pessimism and imperious disdain have always been Vidal's stock in trade. But in two previously uncollected pieces he demonstrates a humane, empathetic mastery of so-called personal journalism. In "The Death of Mishima," he blends his own acute sense of mortality with a meditation on the significance...
The mechanics of narration, the conundrums of time and the intertwining trinity of tenses, the vexing headaches of omniscience-all these familiar aesthetic matters are considered and worked out on the page. More than usual, though, Transparent Things delivers the teller along with the tale.
There are other criticisms one could make from a literary point of view. Very few of Lessing's characters get off without one or another dehumanizing analysis of their personalities. Lessing has an annoying habit of randomly doing away with articles and pronouns. She occasionally writes a very bad sentence...