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With no formal lectures to give and no student manuscripts to read, what would be Author Faulkner's contribution to Virginia students? "The contribution would come out of my experience as a writer, as a craftsman, in contact with a desire of young people to be writers and craftsmen. Out of 100, there may be one who will get something out of the fact that I was in Charlottesville...
Five of the stories are by Jean Stafford, the biggest name and most accomplished craftsman of the group. Mostly, she is writing communiqués in the unceasing wars between children and adults and between the innocent and the worldly. Her work is marred by a truly feminine absorption in detail so that sometimes she seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with...
There are things more cruel than the sea, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat has decided. Having established his rank as a topnotch fiction craftsman in The Cruel Sea (1951), Monsarrat has now made a troubled but effective literary landfall. His second big novel tells of a bloody skirmish in a sector of the no man's land that stretches between white and black along the length of Africa...
There was Shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a remarkably chipper 37 despite 14 seasons of big-league ball. And there, walking out to the mound to hold off the challengers, was the granddaddy of the squad, Sal Maglie, a scowling, blue-bearded craftsman uncomfortably close...
...master's steps, and from his hero's sometimes poignant inability to cope with events or comprehend reality: "I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing." As a craftsman, Beckett tries to convey the chaotic by means of the incoherent, and fails. He possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic. Yet, in the end, his derelict's vision of humanity is that of the prideful or fearful castaway who reduces...