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Both Angela M. Hur ’02 and Elizabeth A. Phang ’02 are writing theses which are ostensibly more personal than those of the authors interviewed last week. The stories are set in a suburban town; the novel??s characters are like the author or people she knows. Do these similarities represent shameless and tiresome exploitations of the author’s experience, or are they simply a means to help the author create a new world that has never been seen before...
...stage. I mean, there are some theaters that can have a room from Versailles fall from the roof but those are not theaters I am going to have access to. With readers you have no limits, they can imagine anything. That makes this a little closer to a novel??it’s useful not to have practical limits. It makes this piece unperformable but I think that’s okay...
...novel??s epigraph, “Let us go to another country… / the rest is understood / just say the word,” by William Plomer, is somewhat misleading. The couple does journey to another country, but all is not understood between the two. They look at their time in this place with different sets of eyes. When Julie looks into the surrounding desert she sees beauty and opportunity. When Ibrahim looks into the desert, he only sees desolation that he must escape from at all costs. It seems that their love is not strong enough...
...Pickup is enjoyable, but has loose edges. Gordimer composes beautiful sentences with masterful images, but they can be baffling. The novel??s harmonious, liquid style, which weaves a simple love story, doesn’t quite make up for its length or melodramatic mood. Still, it is worth the effort of climbing through the elongated drama and elusive passages just to experience the beauty that is the prose. In The Pickup, Gordimer shows that love does not always transcend the physical and emotional needs of individuals. Julie’s “pickup” changes...
...occasional tears. But the reader is given little reason to sympathize with Solanka’s love for Neela besides her beauty. We are given only the briefest insight into her background, and her passion for her native country’s freedom remains a background consideration until the novel??s final pages. In contrast, a male friend of Solanka’s, who is dead before the book opens, is given an extensive, engaging history, full of the contradictions on which Rushdie thrives...