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...several decades, it is astonishing to learn that nearly a thousand of these pages, roughly one-third of the total, have never before been issued in book form. What is more, the appearance now of this unfamiliar material reveals the Old Master in a new light: a great American novelist who wrote more superb criticism than any compatriot, before or since...
...also quick to pounce, often humorously, when he sniffed out dishonest intentions or botched executions. He acknowledges one novelist's gradations of ineptitude: "She began several years ago with writing unmitigated nonsense, and she now writes nonsense very sensibly mitigated." He praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed by the painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion...
...UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera. Czechoslovakia's best novelist plays a number of variations on his favorite theme: the difficult pursuit of happiness in a totalitarian state...
...MORNING STAR: CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Evan S. Connell. An unconventional, highly evocative retelling of the celebrated military disaster in southern Montana by a novelist turned historian...
Edward Morgan Forster might now be remembered as an Edwardian novelist of great promise and slender accomplishment. Two acts rescued him from such oblivion. He wrote A Passage to India (1924), a novel that not only surprised friends who thought he had dried up as an author but also made him world famous. And he lived for 91 years, well beyond such contemporaries as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. To a remarkable degree, Forster ensured his claim on posterity by outlasting...