Word: mannerses
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Fortune ought to smile on the career of A.N. Wilson. He is one of a fairly rare literary species: a writer of social comedies. He is also prolific-Wise Virgin, his first book to be published in this country, is his sixth novel-and very good. Not for him the...
IT IS DIFFICULT to read Elizabeth Hardwick's third book of essays. "Bartleby in Manhattan", without a growing sense of irritation and dismay. Hardwick is a wordsmith who cannot, apparently, control her craft; her essays meander and bring one at long last to a denouement of sorts, without ever really...
That is why Dorothy's response is so unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code...
Although Wajda denies making Danton in response to the events in Poland, it is impossible to forget his political background and decline to read between the frames. When Danton declaims. "Without bread there is no justice, peace or law," or when he tells Robespierre. "Come back to earth I have...
A far darker side of his art lies just beneath the manners, habits of class and self-conscious respectability that provide the surface tension for most of his stories. Generally, what is amusing in the author's England can turn ugly in Ireland (both north and south), where bitter...