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...When he chooses to talk on any subject, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Iroquois ritual, listeners must simply sit patiently until he stops. Gossip delights him. In recent years he seems to have spent much of his time whittling on 19th century regional fiction and the learning of Hungarian-his sixth language...
...coexistence of Red Indians; with the second coming of Christ; and with the problem of regulating sex." But like an old man whose sight is going, the great critic prefers to peer close round himself, to take an avuncular interest in pretty Mary Pcolar, the housewife who teaches him Hungarian, to listen to old Albert Grubel tot up local car-crash victims. The brain is still inquisitive, the descriptive skill sure as ever, but the time for exploring seems to be past. #183; Charles Elliot
...Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge." For the first time, the paper also...
...extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...
There is more glee than fury in the caricatures, and Green grinds his rubber axes in the midst of a Marx Brothers plot that parodies the standard spy novel. Unintentionally, Bloodworth gets mixed up with a pair of Hungarian scientists who perpetrate an elaborate mind-control hoax so that one of them can defect to join his old mistress. Bloodworth has a good time of it (readers will too), particularly during a brief moment of status when the literati look up to him as a CIA Scarlet Pimpernel...