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RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NONHERO, by George R. Marek. The great romantic composer is viewed amidst a vivid evocation of cultural life in Germany-whose decay and upheaval after World War I, argues the author, was the cause of Strauss's disappointing later output...
...after the comic strip first appeared. This week our editors at last have news for Patty and all the other put-down artists who forever undermine Charlie's ego. Charlie indeed makes the cover. It is his due. The Peanuts chronicle has become world famous, and its harried nonhero is beloved by all who follow his tribulations...
...done nothing else, Erich Remarque has given to modern fiction a new sort of nonhero-the nameless and rootless refugee who is forever on the run. In Remarque's new novel, the refugee goes by the name of Schwarz-but Schwarz, of course, is not his real name. He has taken the name and the identification papers of a dead man named Schwarz (who in turn had taken them from another dead man named Schwarz). The obvious implication of this hall-of-mirrors symbolism is that loss of identity is the chronic condition of modern man and that...
Pryar himself, fashionably enough, is a nonhero. A man-about-town who knows writers rather than writing, and women only socially ("He never much liked their shape"), Pryar has sidled into the academic racket as the world's only authority on the world's worst poet, a gruesome Australian mother of seven named Dorothy Merlin. How can he be released from servitude to this distant termagant and become director of the Institute of Visiting Fellows? This is the question the plot turns on, and it looks like a Snow family specialty -academic power politics. However, all the characters...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...