Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About '37, or '38, they had a WPA project at the time with vaudevillians. That was quite a thing, boy, that was really a hang-up. They would take professional people and put you in a storehouse over in South Boston someplace, you sit around all day and go home at night. We were supposed to be rehearsing and putting on shows...
...best of the lot is "Lost in the Funhouse," which, although it has maddening disgressions, is at least concerned with a "real" character, a pubescent boy named Ambrose. Ambrose goes to a seaside amusement park with his family, and there he gets lost in the funhouse. We are not sure if he really gets lost in the funhouse because we are made constantly aware of the author's hand pushing his characters around. Does Ambrose get lost, or does Barth make him get lost, or does Barth speculate about making him get lost? It is impossible to tell, which...
...Nakobov is best when his characters bear the same watermark as himself. Some of his "made-up" characters are good, but they cannot compare to the boy in "First Love," the aging lover in "Spring in Fialta," Pnin, or Humbert Humbert of Lolita, all of whom clearly resemble the author. Lolita, that beautiful and hilarious love story, is still his greatest novel...
Tillie appears only at the tag end of Pajamas, as a social worker checking on Tattersall. Confronted with the dipsomaniacal dog, a house full of rotting food and stacked dishes, and the mongoloid boy mumbling at the sink, she gets off one of those deadpan lines in which De Vries reveals the madness of the rational world-the thundering irrelevance of good liberal intentions about to founder in a sea of chaos...
...little boy loom large in this French-made tale of human understanding, but any cute moments are salvaged by the formidable Michel Simon. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Sommonwealth & Newbury...