Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looming influences on his works are Balzac, Faulkner, Kafka, and Cervantes, "who is the greatest writer in the world--he knows all the secrets of life...
McCarthy's collection of Northcliffe Lectures from University College in London, can be read in two ways. One is as pure literary criticism, as a reinterpretation of Stendhal and Balzac. She writes with assurance and insight of the 19th century novel, of George Eliot's "homely English novel," of the literary use of Napoleon as the personification of genius, of Les Miserables and Jean Valjean's conscience as a dialogue. Her writing is spirited but there are grounds for disagreement, such as her contention that the fiction of Conrad "went so far in' the direction of brevity and concentration that...
...case, whatever voice history uses in San Angelo must be rich, many layered and full of irony. If every great fortune, as Balzac said, is founded on a crime, a lot of good American towns, especially in the West, were built on nothing more dignified-or sinister, for that matter-than whisky and whorehouses. San Angelo, which now envelops the fort, got its start that way. Its economy in the first days grew robust upon soldiers' payday recreations and the gamy appetites of buffalo hunters. Susan Miles, 89, daughter of one of the earlier settlers, manages to sound both...