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...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. Graves, ghosts and cryptic portents of the Gothic novel, transposed in Joycean prose to contemporary Manhattan, funny even when deadly serious...
...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. Graves, ghosts and cryptic portents of the Gothic novel transposed in Joycean prose to contemporary Manhattan, funny even when deadly serious...
...crowd that Salvador Dali likes best, and there was the Spanish surrealist, who is now 59, in all his gaudy glory. His well-beeswaxed mustachios are a little shorter than they were. But his habitual gilt vest still glittered as he brandished his enameled cane and explained in cryptic Franglais the 30 new works that he had brought with...
Like its original, the modern Gothic novel is prone to interest in tombs, graveyards, menacing strangers, cryptic portents, castles and ghosts. These are all present in A Singular Man, cleverly transposed into the idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch...
Oracular Instincts. Graham's dancing today is a grace remembered. She has become fragile and precarious onstage. The mute eloquence of her gestures is now as terse as it is cryptic; her dances are only sketches of her intent. But the 19 other dancers-nine male, ten female-in her company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot...