Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese Painting: A Cultural Perspective on Art as an Historical Event," Elizabeth...
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS by Elizabeth Hardwick Random House; 151 pages...
Much has changed since Elizabeth Hardwick wrote those words nearly a generation ago. "Feminine" has toughened to "feminism." "Sensibility," a blandishment of the literary critic, has become "consciousness," a cliche of the cultural revolutionary. But her view still holds; as an essayist and a power in New York literary circles, Hardwick has kept her distance from trendy tastes. There are books and there is literature, she told a gathering of writers and publishers last year, adding that she had never met anyone who bought a book on the bestseller lists...
...tosses and turns on such hard, solitary judgments. Mary McCarthy comes to mind and, oddly, so does the Ernest Hemingway of A Moveable Feast, who said that his book could be regarded as fiction though it also might throw light on autobiographical fact. Hardwick provides a similar safeguard when Elizabeth, her novel's unaltered ego, says to herself, "Why didn't you change your name? Then you could make up anything you like, without it seeming to be true when...
...only one of many characters gracefully projected on the page like shadow puppets. The unnamed husband of Elizabeth muses on the genteel oppressions of his native Boston. Later he is mentioned as a man who reads and writes all day, has "the preoccupied look of a secret agent" and free-associates about Goethe with his psychiatrist. The author seems to have measured elements of Lowell very carefully, knowing that his specific gravity could easily upset the delicate balance of her fiction...