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...Second Stone, by Leslie Fiedler. A zany triangle of Americans in Rome soon turns out to be a parable in which Author-Critic Fiedler pits the U.S. artist as rebel against the U.S. artist as public entertainer...
...Second Stone, by Leslie Fiedler. In this boisterous first novel of love in Rome, the author-critic puts into fictional form one of his pet literary theories: the eternal antagonism between the artist as true rebel and the artist as public entertainer...
Spectators at Fiedler's intellectual Roman games should not be diverted by the lesser lions or Christians, though they are diverting enough in their way. Like the Negro writer Littlepage, who exploits his pigmentation so fraudulently that Clem claims he is in blackface. The main question is the fate of Clem, and whether he will become a tragedian, rather than a clown able only to howl: "Land where no siblings cried, land where our freedoms died, land where Lux, Duz and Tide...
...Shadow. At the level of its own high intentions, this brilliantly conceived novel does not quite succeed. But it has its virtues. The pomposities inherent in the rites of a cultural conference with its attendant careerists, officials and crafty or daft monomaniacs are wonderfully hit off. Surprisingly, Loo, Fiedler is able to convey the untheoretical delight of love entirely without the solemn telltale snuffle of the pornographer...
...trouble seems to lie in Fiedler's intention of dealing with men and women "in their archetypal reality, as dreamed by our greatest writers rather than travestied by our poor selves." This Platonic ontology can be argued, but Plato himself was in no doubt that this theory was the enemy of art. Reality may be like the figures in Plato's famous cave, where only the shadows may be seen by mortal eye. But, it is just those shadows that are the substance of art, and the business of malting a play of their flickering forms is still...