Word: bittersweetness
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August 13 to August 18: Rosalind Elias in "Bittersweet...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. The Southern writer's final work is an outlandish comedy filled with bittersweet reminiscences from his earlier novels...
August 13 to August 18: Rosalind Elias in "Bittersweet...
BEBO'S GIRL, by Carlo Cassola (249 pp.; Pantheon; $4.50). This brief, bittersweet story of lovers separated by fate was first published in 1960, became the rage of Italy, and won the important Strega Prize (given the year before to Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard...
...Bittersweet Civil War. "There is no such thing as was," Faulkner once said, and in his county-partly because it cannot let go of the nostalgic, bittersweet memory of the Civil War, partly because Faulkner has arranged it-everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson...