Word: byronical
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...copyist is Israel Horovitz too. The copyist, in the final analysis, realizes that life will never end. About Byron the copyist reports: "Byron will delude himself . . . He will each time believe that it is over. That he is free." Later the copyist says: "Soon to end . . . The cast is their duet now . . . Each knows the other if forever now and both are frightened awed terrified by all that notion contains...
...writing a play, Horovitz chose to write a novel this time, and this choice shows his concern with form. Horovitz again contradicts himself by centering the novel on himself rather than a social issue like fear (The Indian Wants the Bronx) or racism (Morning). Cappella is an autobiography; Byron is Israel Horovitz. Both the fictional Byron and the real Horovitz were born on March 31, both have a wife and three children, and, foremost, both are authors...
...much as the copyist obscures, he also analyzes, and his thoughts parallel the developing relationship between Byron and Cappella as they relate parts of their lives to each other. Cappella is lonely and troubled mainly because he is unwanted and superfluous. He explains a painful extramarital relationship which resulted in a daughter whose true identity he had to keep from his wife; and between sad reminiscences he screams in the night for herring or chopped liver...
...BYRON'S STORY is stranger in the traditional sense of the absurd. Once for example he was running along the beach and drawn to a mansion in which he found a dead, mutilated woman. He set about to erase her by burying her and burning her books and photos, and is relieved of his inner drive only when everything is in order...
...time Byron sees Cappella in a dream as young; at another point Byron is made old. Their roles merge. They are really the same person--they are Israel Horovitz...