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There are moments when O'Hara seems to be saying you can get the girl out of the Social Register, but you cannot get the Social Register out of the girl. And there are times, in capsule form at least, when Elizabeth's odyssey sounds like a radio serial that has lost its snap and crackle. But in the telling, it frequently pops with O'Hara's unequaled expertise as a domestic historian. Tuning in on a bridge game or a couple chatting over the supper dishes, watching a college president pushing responsibility for a nasty...
What saddened Kazantzakis' life, however, strengthened his art. His experiences steeled his poet's nerves, shaped the hard philosophy of his later masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Last Temptation of Christ. Life is ceaseless combat, Kazantzakis learned, and the poet's fight is the fiercest of all: to translate experience into words, to "transform flesh into spirit...
...serving all this up, however, Hortense Calisher, a memorable short-story writer with one forgettable novel (False Entry) to her credit, has concocted something far richer and immeasurably rarer than the usual dreadful treacle of youthful domestic odyssey. Textures of Life, in fact, is a small masterpiece in a strange minor key, a little treasury of the obvious made miraculous by talent...
...simple terms Van Doren wants his students not only to read carefully but to think about the four masterpieces--The Odyssey, portions of the Old Testament, The Castle, Don Quixote--assigned in the course. He is a teacher. And like the best of teachers he knows that no student will fully grasp an idea or story until he has made it his own through active, even enthusiastic concern...
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