Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose career is past its peak. Sartre at 59 re mains an authentic hero for French intellectuals, including those who most despise him, and he is one of the few 20th century philosophers whose names^ are at least vaguely known to the public. His drama and fiction (No Exit, Nausea, The Roads to Freedom) are deservedly remembered, his formal philosophical works are read only by specialists and masochists...
...brand-new Pook's Hill Inter change near Bethesda, Md., is different. There you can be absolutely certain that you're wrong. They left out half the exit ramps...
...LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN by Hubert Selby Jr. 304 pages. Grove Press...
...Last Exit is a series of six stories, loosely linked by shared characters and unremitting violence, to make up a novel about the waterfront slums of Brooklyn. In this book all the ordinary four-letter words are for the little children, while grownups employ a more esoteric vocabulary where drag means transvestite clothing, silks are women's underpants worn by men, a John is a male prostitute's male customer, and rough-trade is that same prostitute's brutal boy friend...
There are critics (Grove is already assembling them) who will defend as art and high realism a book that describes such life and death with the primitive but undeniable power and anger that Author Selby demonstrates. But Last Exit to Brooklyn is not realism at all. Instead, it is a hypocrisy just as flagrant as the old-fashioned kind that wrote for dirty words and **** for scenes of sex. What Selby scrupulously elides are all the pleasant moments of life. What's left, he tells in a style that will also inevitably be hailed as "tape-recorder realism"-because...