Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the last chapter, it becomes clear what that point is. In the character of an old priest who prays for the redemption of all the Russians, Author Tertz says: "He was only a village priest, but one thing he knew: that even if his church were the last on...
In a society dominated by the idea of aristocracy, this child of the slums was universally recognized as a great man in embryo. His mind was brilliant and his character founded on the Rock of Ages-he was a devout adherent of the Sandemanians, a gentle sect of fundamentalists. He...
No reader has any business being amused, or even feeling comfortable, in the company of Peter De Vries. At one irrepressible level, the man masquerades as a humorist, perfectly capable of reeling out one outlandishly felicitous conceit after another. The conceits abound in this book. "Get divorced while you'...
The problem seems to me to revolve around the multi-leveled plot. Every character has a carefully plotted relationship to every other, a relationship often twisted by family ties and past animosities. If a production succeeds, every line crackles with the meaning behind it; the languid pace becomes for the...
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it...