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...that time he was already noted for the unusual breadth of his scholarship, which eventually ranged from such books as Ben Jonson and The Overreacher, a study of Christopher Marlowe, to Balzac, Flaubert, and Toward Stendhal. Appointed a full professor here in 1948 at the age of 36, Levin has taught courses varying from "Modern American Poetry," which he gave as a visiting professor at Tokyo University last summer, to "Shakespeare" and "Proust, Joyce and Mann...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing...
...many hard knocks . . . A failure to get through The Monastery robbed me of Scott for half a lifetime. Imagine the fate of the man first introduced to Shakespeare through Troilus and Cressida, to Trollope through He Knew He Was Right, to Hardy through Jude the Obscure or to Flaubert through Bouvard et Pecuchet . . . Tolstoy is the only author I know whose novels and major stories can be read in any order without deterrence...
...latest novel, TIME, Aug. 2] does not please me. It took nine years to write that book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...
Dumb Disciples. For the rest, there are serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...