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LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
...that "happens to me only after I've finished a big work." And the Mass, he might have added, is one of the biggest works of his career. "It has been boiling up inside me for years," said Britten. "I had to find a language simple enough to convey what I wanted...
...convey his arguments to his readers Baldwin has adopted a style that falls somewhere between the impressionistic, internalized prose he is accustomed to writing and the more detailed, objectified articles his audience expects to read. The essay is considerably longer than Baldwin's usual pieces; his use of detail is somewhat more precise, and his arguments somewhat simplified. Yet its title, "Letter From a Region of My Mind," instantly sets it off from other forms of New Yorker reportage (this is no "Letter from Paris," for instance). And the world it describes is one that few other New Yorker writers...
...where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method, which he calls "creative reportage." With it, he tries to convey "how it feels to be alive in a particular place in a particular time...
...would like to convey my sincere congratulations for being named a Nobel laureate for your work in biology...