Word: garnette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autobiographer is lucky if his subject is a fascinating fellow. David Garnett, Britain's eminent, aging (64) novelist and critic, has accomplished the next best thing by having a lot of fascinating pals. In The Golden Echo, the first volume of his autobiography (TIME, May 24, 1954), Garnett told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard...
These were the most brilliant flowers of Bloomsbury, the domain of London's intelligentsia that clusters around the British Museum-where Garnett's grandfather was an official-and whose hothouse air Constance (Garnett's mother, translator of War and Peace) breathed into her son. In the present volume Garnett, whom his friends all called "Bunny", tells about World War I, but this is a war reminiscence of a special kind. For Bloomsbury's Bunny was a conscientious objector. In 1914 Rupert, who was soon to write...
Latin Brio. The neo-pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
This book is like a game of musical chairs played in bed. Husbands and lovers, wives and mistresses are whisked in and out of each other's arms with such worldly wise frivolity as to suggest that English Novelist David ("Bunny") Garnett has snitched his basic idea from La Ronde. The biological hero of the novel is handsome Alexander Golightly (Alexis to his friends), who is in his late teens when Aspects of Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with...
...effect tells Jenny to go stand in a corner for five years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic than the Gauls -at least on paper...