Word: egomanias
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...find reprehensible the publicizing and glamorizing of, in my opinion, another example of a lost, freaky youngster who, like countless others, is engulfed in his own esoteric world of egomania, copping out, cacophony, inarticulateness and insignificant ideas...
...Merry Mouth of May, Jones is still playing his role-switching games, as if the changing of narrators could create meaningful ambiguity where his sympathies are all too clear. Egomania has overcome Jones' perspective, and he creates only caricatures which, taken all together, add up to a jig-saw portrait of Jones himself. The Jack Hartley who tells this story of sexual gamesmanship set in Paris during the May '68 strike is Jones masquerading as sophisticated literary figure, editor of "The Two Islands Review" (founded after "George's" Paris Review went soft), and Boswell to an American expatriate named Harry...
READING Mailer and other writers with central visions of America, one questions their assertion that the country has a meaningful inner core, and one wonders whether it is not all chaotic egomania in which the sub-cults and the marginalia, the government and the governed, have been left to grow by themselves, to extend in any direction, restrained only by the dictates of inner logic. Tom Wolfe takes precisely this view as the underlying theme of his journalism. Mailer, however, bites at the poisoned artichoke with the unspoken premise that if the American psyche has been fragmented to this degree...
...Egomania. Perhaps the reason Casals has withstood the wear and tear of time so well is that he has not faded, only mellowed. His new autobiography, Joys and Sorrows (as told to Albert E. Kahn; Simon & Schuster; $7.95), avoids the orgies of nostalgic egomania typical of most aging performers. "On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old," he begins. "That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter...
...short, the structure of the play glosses over the basic problem in the material-how to put egomania on the stage. Rolfe obviously could emphathize only with his own person or with projections of his personality (the young alter ego George Arthur Rose and the Bishop of Caerleon). The other characters in his fantasy pageant fit into stereotypes of melodrama. Tocqueville was not the last egotist to structure a world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian...