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Henry Kaiser and his Mather House Films cronies gave Harvard audiences a treat very low outside New York or Los Angeles have enjoyed--Wojciech Haas's The Saragossa Manuscript. In his witty, complex fantasy of a chaotic, magical late-medieval society, Haas urges spiritualism as an alternative for social conventions when real social choice is blocked. Beautifully photographed and edited, and acted by Poland's best...
...Country to the article, Patrice Higonnet's book on Pont-de-Montvert was in press at the time of his appointment. For any departmental review committee, a book in press is a book and not a manuscript, and we would properly be accused of nit-picking if we failed to make this distraction. He had also published a series of important articles on French political alignments and interest groups during the Revolution and the Monarchie Censitaire, using computer analysis to after a new interpretation of the division between progressive and conservative opinion. To imply, as the article does, that Professor...
...book badly printed is infinitely more valuable than a bad book beautifully printed." Fortunately the maxim is not mocked here. The text, by several authorities, is for the general reader who wants to learn. Title notwithstanding, less space is devoted to the bound book than to its precursor the manuscript, whose history is far longer and richer. From Mesopotamia to William Morris, from the lacquered bindings of Persia to the bejeweled Gospels of the Dark Ages, the book manages to convey the serenity of a library and an unostentatious reverence for writing...
...first major novel, The Sound and the Fury. The edition never appeared, and Faulkner's 1,200-word preface lay unpublished until the University of South Carolina's James B. Meriwether found the long-missing first page among the novelist's papers and turned the manuscript over to the Southern Review. According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury was written in "that ecstasy, that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." It also contained, he said, the only scene "which would ever move me very much: Caddy climbing the pear tree to look...
This is probably why The Saragossa Manuscript, the best Polish film I've ever seen, is a film one gradually works into rather than an audience-grabber. It is worth the patience: as it progresses, it entrances...