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...that obvious reference, “Beatrice and Virgil” is full of literary allusions. Martel borrows heavily from the mood of manic stasis in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” and as Henry himself notes, his “flip-book?? would have two doors, “but no exit.” This conceit is reminiscent of the hellish, locked claustrophobia of Sartre’s “Huis Clos...
...Depository’s financing was not created with the expectation of the high circulation that it now faces. Member libraries pay for storage in an inefficient client-based business model, in which a book??s owner—a particular school within the University—pays for all of the costs associated with the item, even if the beneficiary is affiliated with another unit...
...example, if a College student who requests a book deposited by Harvard Medical School, HMS pays the $2.15 fee associated with the book??s circulation...
...this Pulitzer Prize finalist has lost little of his mass appeal. On March 25, O’Brien returned to Cambridge—he once studied in Harvard’s Ph.D. program in government—to speak in celebration of the book??s 20th anniversary. O’Brien’s speech at First Parish Church Meetinghouse elicited both laughter and tears as he discussed the lasting influence of a work written, as he said at the event, “to help readers feel something about what...
...acknowledgments, O’Brien refers to “Mrs. Adams in Winter” as a “literary experiment.” This description matches the book??s digressive structure, which shifts constantly from past to present and back again. Because of this, the narrative feels saturated in memory—although O’Brien’s restrained prose prevents the emergence of the lyricism or deep meditation from which his account could benefit. Nevertheless, “Mrs. Adams in Winter” is an informative and diverting?...