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SOMERSET AND ALL THE MAUGHAMS by Robin Maugham. 270 pages. New American Library...
...been a horrible and evil man," said Somerset Maugham, past 91 and dying at a pace he found painfully slow. "Every one of the few people who have ever got to know me well has ended up by hating me." Then, as if to prove it, he would sit muttering angrily to himself, or fly into sudden rages at his guests. From the wrinkled nonagenarian mouth came the vilest obscenities, and he agonized over the mistakes in his life. "My greatest one was this. I tried to persuade myself that I was three-quarters normal and that only a quarter...
Uncoached, Undazzled. Gauguin in the South Seas should surprise readers who have been accustomed to the legend of the man inspired by Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence and propagated by art dealers. Moreover, Biographer Danielsson stands in no perceptible awe of his subject's artistic stature...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
...artists so often cited as evidence of the homosexual's creativity-the Leonardos and Michelangelos -are probably the exceptions of genius. For the most part, thinks Los Angeles Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook, homosexuals are failed artists, and their special creative gift a myth. No less an authority than Somerset Maugham felt that the homosexual, "however subtly he sees life, cannot see it whole," and lacks "the deep seriousness over certain things that normal men take seriously ... He has small power of invention, but a wonderful gift for delightful embroidery. He has vitality, brilliance, but seldom strength...