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Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His...
"The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute if, as an many seem to think. It needs one: and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a watercolor is inferior to as oil, or whether a drawing, an etching or a photograph is not as important...
Ophuls' interviewers use extraordinary tact and intelligence. With ordinary people-the shopkeepers, former spies, pharmacists, German soldiers, lawyers, biologists, hairdressers-they steadily expose those jagged, apparently inconsequent motivations that can lead a man either way in a private crisis. One Resistance hero is proudest not of his deeds but...
Poetry & Life. Lowell, Roethke, Bishop, Larkin, Kinsella-they are all good poets, but to say that they are the best of the postwar period is not to say much for a period characterized by a ferment without much effect, a prodigy promised but not performed. Among the couths, even the...
This gruesome novel of human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once...