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This is true for this collection's best stories. They are by masters of the form, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Saul Bellow, all of whom will undoubtedly be represented when the O. Henry Awards publishes The Prize Stories of the Century...
...world has a habit of collapsing into melancholy. Poor overread Albert warns himself about Keats' "egotistical sublime." His rich interior is forever ababble with Kant and Schopenhauer and his own obsessive, bewildered mutterings. A distant descendant of Leopold Bloom, cousin to the anguished intellectual comics of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and even Woody Allen, Albert negotiates a shambling, rueful passage through his mid-40s. He has made Who's Who in America (a New York magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing his destiny as furiously racing alongside...
...Tale Bearers is a companion piece to The Myth Makers (1979), which concentrated on European and Latin American literature. Pritchett's subject now is a mixed bag of British and American writers, ranging from Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow to Rider Haggard and Mary McCarthy. This choice seems random, and indeed it was largely dictated by the books that came to Pritchett for review. The result is a sampler rather than a thesis, and none the worse for that. It is much more fun to be treated than lectured...
...some burlesque science fiction, the nation seems to have been injected with a truth serum designed to make people bore one another to death; it has given them a compulsion to confide embarrassing intimacies, has led them on to endless emotional ostentations, as if, as Saul Bellow once wrote, "to keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." A man sits down at a New Jersey dinner party, beside a woman he met half an hour before, and hears in elaborately explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with...
Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...