Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France's leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller...
HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France's leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller...
...this is wondrously irrelevant to the overall lyric effect. Simon can be chided for the illusory pun of his title and for his helpful but distracting prefatory lines from Rilke: "It submerges us. We organize it. It falls to pieces. We organize it again and fall to pieces ourselves." But Simon is at ease with uncertainties and loose ends. In fact, loose ends are his antennae. How he uses them to convey his own private perceptions is his mystery...
...from our hearts. It's their latest single, recorded before they went off to meditate in India last month, and released on both sides of the Atlantic last week. It bears the hallmarks of all their most recent work: a deft arrangement, superb engineering, and a lyric (sung by Paul McCartney in what is known as his "Elvis voice") that combines blithe humor with sharp social portraiture of a hard-pressed mother...
...emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...