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...measure of a masterpiece is the amount of abuse it can take. The hit tunes from dozens of operas have been ragged, jived, jazzed, boogied, swung and popped-and most of them have emerged little the worse. Carmen, especially, has survived countless transmutations. Geraldine Farrar, Theda Bara and Rita Hayworth all vamped their way through screen versions; Bea Lillie mauled it at the Met. Maya Plisetskaya danced it to an orchestration including 47 percussion instruments. Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones gave Bizet's gypsy girl a surname and set her to work packing parachutes in the Deep South...
NATHANAEL WEST: THE ART OF HIS LIFE by Jay Martin. 435 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan Didion. 214 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...ABOUT H. HATTERR by G.V. Desani. 287 pages. Farrar, Straus & G/roux...
EXILES by Michael J. Arlen. 226 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...