Word: objectless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer he has never seen before, for no reason except to be in the spirit...
...that the more he tries to express the interconnectedness of all the land and all the dynasties, the more the reader rebels. It may be true, as Thomas Wolfe believed, that "every moment is a window on all time," but Bell crawls in and out these windows with the objectless glee of a boy exploring a vacant mansion...
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