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Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass as the reincarnation of Miss Lonelyhearts. But Vonnegut is both riper and less mature than West-and less angry. Able to observe detachedly above the world's fray, he has not enlisted in the cause of either good or evil...
...could write another at the same level. A second surprise is that no cult has gathered since Wallant's death. Ordinarily, the work of a brilliant and relatively unknown writer would, at his death, quickly be walled into a shrine and suffused with critical incense, as happened to Nathanael West. But West raged at chaos, and rage can be read as hate, which is a suitable cult emotion. Wallant's transcendent gift was for compassion, and in his writing compassion is so clear and so strong that no willful misreading can blur it to the cult-currency...
...NATHANAEL NEUJEAN-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Thirty-three small pieces in rough bronze for a Belgian sculptor's first U.S. showing. Much of his work commemorates the victims of the Nazi pogroms and stands as a monument to their courage. He endows his figures with dignity in despair, casts them in small lonely groups bound together both by human oppression and the hidden force of their own humanity. Through March...
...Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts is the saga of a cynical writer of a newspaper agony column who is sucked into emotional involvements with his correspondents and almost against his will achieves a kind of faith. Author Wilfrid Sheed's funny, sad, perceptive novel turns the story upside down. It recounts the fate of a magazine writer who starts with a serene, uncluttered faith and, as it slips away from him, tries desperately to become a cynical hack...