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...startled; it was almost like finding a Goethe in a peat croft. But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty. O'Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary...
...EDWARD CONNOR New York City...
WISE BLOOD (232 pp.) - Flannery O'Connor-Harcourt, Brace...
Seasons come, seasons go. but Southern novels just keep rolling along. Here are two new ones, both by women, and as different in subject and style as two books could be. Flannery O'Connor's arty Wise Blood flashes with fitful satire; Caroline Ivey's The Family gleams with kitchen coziness. One is too far from humanity, the other a bit too close...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...