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...world is that of the nouveau riche and the pseudo-intellectual. His suburbanites struggle with the complexities of country clubs and housing developments; his professors, just out of Harvard or Columbia, are careful to pronounce Don Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead...
...love of a horsy woman comes to you as a birthright," Hollywood may be filled mainly with non-Wasps, but they still usually take Wasp names and act out Wasp fantasies in films. In Jewish novels, the central character is often driven to live a Wasp-like life. Herzog finds his ultimate solace in a little bit of land he owns in the Berkshires: "symbol of his Jewish struggle for a solid footing in white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America...
...book since Pale Fire. Called Ada, it is Delphically described by the author as "an attempt to grapple with the problem of time." Saul Bellow, the man whom most of the other people consider the most accomplished novelist in English, has a new novel too. Like his bestselling Herzog, it will deal with urban intellectuals, more than ever a promising subject since Norman Podhoretz's Making It made...
...month about Hans Kiesel, the lucky West German businessman who bought a grimy oil of a couple of nudes at the flea market in Paris for $40, only to discover a long-lost Monet hidden beneath it? The find was fully restored and authenticated by experts at the respected Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. One of the great impressionist's Gare St. Lazare paintings, it was dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes...
...grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." If law and order is removed, nothing will prevent the racial discord within America from turning into a civil war, White against Black. This can be no man's dream; it is a nightmare. Eugene L. Herzog...