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Very subtly Tyler turns Morgan into a universal character. She shows remarkable skill at placing eternal truths in the mouths of her character without overstepping the line between truth and triteness:
THE UNIVERSAL MORGAN transcends the setting of the story, an achievement all the more remarkable because the author has set her novel specifically, almost immovable, in time and place. The Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While...
The Mental Proof. In this formulation, an all-intelligent Being is offered as the only explanation for the power of reason and for humanity's other nonmaterial qualities of mind and imagination. A contemporary restatement is the 1947 classic Miracles by the late English literary critic C.S. Lewis, the...
DIED. Roland Barthes, 64, France's preeminent literary critic; of chest injuries he sustained when hit by a car five weeks ago; in Paris. In the first of his 13 books, Writing Degree Zero (1953), and in his masterpiece, Mythologies (1957), he argued that the dogmas, idols and "myths...
O'Connor's comi-tragic novella concerns one Hazel Motes, the son of a preacher, a young, little-educated Southerner confused about religion. Haze is a preacher, too, but not of any church of Christ. In a South obsessed with Jesus--JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he...