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...Weigel's point. There is no drama in this drama-no rush, no reason, no alternative, no future. The junkie's world is not a series of adrenaline highs and remorseful lows; it is one endless anguish. The victims are zombies, gray-faced, living dead. Director Ulrich Edel hews to a semidocumentary style, but his message is out of the classic German monster movies: There is a golem inside us all, and its name is apathy...
...these moments are rare. For the most part, Strouse provides a fascinating and balanced portrait of a talented and frustrated woman. Her book is highly illuminating and eminently readable, in its own way as definitive a biography as Leon Edel's massive five-volume study of Henry. Alice James: A Biography is an enduring contribution to the growing collection of James family literature, and a moving and suggestive portrait of a woman of wasted potential...
BLOOMSBURY: A HOUSE OF LIONS by Leon Edel...
Only two kinds of books seem to be published nowadays: those that are about Bloomsbury and those that are not. Every survivor of that glittering artistic and intellectual cabal, every survivor's survivor, has given testimony. Leon Edel is one of our leading literary biographers, the author of the magisterial five-volume Henry James. But what can even he add to the existing mountain of data? Only two characteristic Bloomsbury virtues: form and sensibility...
...Edel uses a novelist's skill to keep all this straight - if straight is the word. Strachey's Eminent Victorians, he notes, was written "in a new kind of ink - the ink of Vienna, of Sigmund Freud." Edel's portrait of Virginia Woolf includes a pow erful analysis of the roots of her art and madness. She was haunted by deaths in her family (symbolized by a horrible animal face that once appeared when she looked in a mirror) and sexually traumatized by her halfbrothers' childhood groping. At the same time, her identification with her dead...