Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virginia Woolf characterized Mme. de Sévigné, is said by Mossiker to have "verbalized as naturally as she breathed." Even so, the French writer's voice carries, resonating across the cultural and linguistic divide. For that echo alone, the reader can be grateful. -By Patricia Blake...
Associate Editor Patricia Blake's latest book is the result of her collaboration on four anthologies of Russian prose and poetry in English with the late British translator and critic Max Hayward. Blake has now edited and written a long introductory essay for a collection of Hayward's articles, Writers in Russia 1917-1978, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
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...idiosyncrasy assures the annihilation of culture." But we may take heart: the sense of her commanding novel is that Cynthia Ozick has prevailed, as ever more readers are attracted by the universal appeal of her Jewishness. Hers is a triumph for the idiosyncrasy that animates all art. -By Patricia Blake...