Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escapes from a novel by watching the author's tricks; if a writer is too obviously skillful he distracts one's attention. Roth has the sense not to do this. He woos the reader instead of impressing him. What seems at first overwriting comes to convey the emotional intensity of the story. But we feel it rather than perceive it. Roth's technique of alternating paragraphs of description and introspection takes a little getting used to. But once we accept it, it overwhelms...
Although visually engrossing throughout, Incident suffers from textual dullness at first but soon builds up steam. Four of the performances manage to convey fully rounded characters: Joseph Wiseman's intense and anguished psvchiatrist, Harold Scott's buffeted and sullen gypsy, Ira Lewis' adolescent boy (who disappoints only when he speaks), and Will Lee's old Jew (who utters not a word but seems to carry all of Jewish history in his aged frame...
...exclusively the gift of old or middle-aged men, men who are past the complex years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it. It cannot convey, because it does not remember, what being a child is like. The Words is not an account of an extraordinary childhood, but the extraordinary fantasy about childhood of a man who has created things with words all of his life. When it comes to recounting the events of his childhood Sartre (exactly...
Unfortunately this reviewer cannot convey to you how extraordinarily well-written and alive Sartre's prose in The Words is. The book is the testament of a persevering genius, a writer who labors over his words until they reflect precisely his thoughts, which were clear before he began the process of writing. Now he has turned to the subject he cares most about--himself. The vitality and art with which he speaks of his life are extraordinary
...course, difficult to convey an accurate impression of the period of time that we were in the hospital room...