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...Tale Bearers is a companion piece to The Myth Makers (1979), which concentrated on European and Latin American literature. Pritchett's subject now is a mixed bag of British and American writers, ranging from Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow to Rider Haggard and Mary McCarthy. This choice seems random, and indeed it was largely dictated by the books that came to Pritchett for review. The result is a sampler rather than a thesis, and none the worse for that. It is much more fun to be treated than lectured...
Stephens, a 5'6'' freshman from Conrad, Arkansas, demonstrated to the crowd that a fast start, speed in the straightaways, and classical hurdling form can ably compensate for any height advantage his opponents might have...
...Joseph Conrad is the only accurate historian Naipaul finds, and his fiction is the subject of the fourth essay, "Conrad's Darkness." He offers Naipaul solidity: well-considered ideas that have been tested, conclusions which Naipaul can trace to their roots. His writing is a welcome change from the rhetorical fantasies of Generals Mobutu of Zaire and Peron of Argentina. "Nothing is rigged in Conrad. He doesn't remake countries. He chose, as we now know, incidents from real life; and he meditated on them...
Naipaul blows his cover as Joseph Conrad's secret agent to the abandoned worlds of imperialism. Naipaul was born in Trinidad of Hindu descent and, like Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, made England his home. Like Conrad, Naipaul writes of social upheaval, solitude, madness and evil, but as they apply to the colonized, not the colonizers. And he is merciless...
...Wells saw the future in American technology, the mystagogic D.H. Lawrence drew a distinction between primal America, which appealed to his fancy sense of atavism, and "the mechanical empire of Uncle Samdom." Auden picked up at least a part of the theme. Wrote Conrad: "The economic vice of Europeans, in Auden's view, is avarice, while that of Americans is waste." Nature, vast and promising, exists ultimately to be conquered and transformed into the benisons of the shopping mall. But at the far end of the interpretation, God's plenitude and bounty begin to be exhausted. What then...