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FICTION: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz∙The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer∙The Second Coming, Walker Percy
BELLEFLEUR by Joyce Carol Oates Dutton; 558 pages...
...have no choice but to be Americans now," says Raphael Bellefleur, descendant of French aristocrats and now the owner of a baronial estate in the New World. But what is an American? The question has provoked writers as diverse as Henry James and Gertrude Stein, and it haunts Joyce Carol Oates throughout this vast seven-generation epic. That is not all that haunts her. Oates' twelfth novel informs the occult with Freudian insights. Boys change into hounds, men into bears; a man, swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year...
Mazursky's 1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was a sharply sketched comment on sexuality in the Esalen age. In the years since, his work has gone soft; with An Unmarried Woman, he finally arrived at his present state, where he sentimentalizes the mildly eccentric, celebrates sweet-spirited rebelliousness and generally goofs off on promising themes. The result has been a series of truly enervating movies, of which Willie and Phil is but the most spineless. Its three leading players do what they can with the material, but their task is quite hopeless...
...Masters and Johnson were pioneers," says Psychologist Peter A. Wish, executive director of the New England Institute of Family Relations in Framingham, Mass., "and when people pioneer, they can't have all the answers." Dr. Carol Nadelson, professor of psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center, agrees that "their research methodology raises some questions," but she cautions that "one could get sticky about methodology and never get anything done...