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...needs that ensures her greatness as a literary character, a point that elicits wholehearted sympathy from Vargas Llosa, who as an outspoken young writer and Peruvian hotspur once caused quite a stir in conservative Lima. "It is not only the fact that Emma is capable of defying her milieu," he writes, "but also the causes of her defiance that force me to admire that elusive little nobody. These causes are very simple and stem from something that she and I share intimately: our incurable * materialism, our greater predilection for the pleasures of the body than for those of the soul...
Although the 1920s and 1930s are remembered as a golden age for mysteries, that era's exemplar, Agatha Christie, and most of her contemporaries had no gift for taking readers on a journey into another culture or milieu. The fun lay chiefly in guessing, if one cared, who killed Roger Ackroyd. Nowadays, Christie's kind of puzzle, based on clues larded into the text, has largely given way to a more novelistic brand of mystery, in which the solution may not matter that much to either the writer or the reader. The motive for a crime is more likely...
Along the avenue, portals framed in warm black terrazzo give access to the internal galleries. Here, Aulenti has done marvels with adjustment of scale to image. Each space suits its contents, whether one is looking at Daumier's 36 clay caricature heads of the Celebrites du Juste- Milieu, no bigger than grenades and as lethal, whose passionate violations of the human face would so deeply affect Giacometti a century later, or at the large, suave, marmoreal forms of Ingres and early neoclassical Jean-Leon Gerome...
...Paul Treat's milieu, Allan would be a very small paper tiger indeed. Actors live in a vivid, generous, but to Frances, dangerous world. "Paul had two main voices," she notes, "one for pleading and one for threats." In fact, as she finally realizes, behind all the bravado, the lighted-up codpieces in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the sadomasochistic improvisations, Paul is dedicated to the pursuit of money for his productions, and he is totally unprincipled in his methods. It seems that he really does love Frances -- or so the improbable happy ending would indicate...
...Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil of hypocrisy, what people hide behind. I understood that I could write about my own milieu and combine it with Matheson's approach, and it worked like a bandit...