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SEVERAL PROBLEMS MAR Bradford's approach to the text. Why, for instance, has he not cut the distracting subplots often excluded in contemporary productions--such as the hackneyed drinking scenes between Caliban and minor characters Trinculo and Stephano, or the awkwardly staged scene in which the goddesses Iris, Ceres and...
O'Keeffe always rejected the idea that her scenes of New Mexico were meant as symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the...
But certainly Lasch is wrong when he asserts that the realistic novel has been deprived of its usual targets: "hypocrisy, pomposity, misguided idealism, self-deception." The best novelists at work today, most notably the British, have satirized Freudian idealists and fools as ruthlessly as they attacked all the older stupidities...
Updike has pulled off the annoying trick of being tolerant towards his charactors without being sympathetic to them, as a result coming off strangely condescending. Although his story presents itself as a novel, it owes more to the spirit of gossip and farce that to the novel as it is...
Iris Murdoch, 64, British novelist: "The only people in the world I am envious of are those with pools, especially heated ones."