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...they keep trying they are going to get it right one of these decades. In 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty unquestionably belonged to Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh. The perverse joy that grand actor took in his character's sadism entirely dominated Clark Gable's conventionally heroic Fletcher Christian. In 1962, when Marlon Brando came on board for a star trip, his Mr. Christian took the helm, dramatically speaking, long before his character, leading the mutineers, had seized it. Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision...
STRATIS HAVIARAS brings to The Heroic Age the lyrical style, eye for the visual, and economic approach of a poet rather than a novelist. This should not be surprising. Haviaras has written both Greek and English poetry, and is the curator of the Woodberry poetry collection here at Harvard. His second novel. The Heroic Age, recounts the turbulent adolescence of a boy, Panagis, growing up in factious, post-World War II Greece...
AQUESTION OVER who constitutes the proper audience for The Heroic Age produces one's chief qualm with the novel. No doubt Greeks will be better able to appreciate Haviaras's writing the novel in English Haviaras also commits himself to pleasing an American audience. While he is careful to give the reader the brute information necessary to understand the names of the political groups, be is slightly lay in establishing the meaning of this information. A certain animating philosophical passion would make this book more accessible to American readers, transmuting the craftsmanlike and episodic plot into a story more obviously...
...Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library. Haviaras says he feels most closely in touch with his "life-fluids" at night, when he prefers to write. For years he has been filling his spare hours writing poetry and fiction, and this month Simon and Schuster published his second English novel. The Heroic...
...have vivid and powerful memories from those years, the kind that, for the sake of survival, one tends to suppress," Haviaras says, describing how he has only recently worked these years out through his fiction writing. "The last book left off at the crucial age of 12, and [The Heroic Age] roughly carries on the tale...