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...line's status as an important college-cult figure. Castle to Castle may mark wider recognition in the U.S. for Céline as one of the considerable writers of this century. Yet Céline's belief that he was in the esthetic avant-garde is overblown, and so are the claims that this book is a germinal literary event. Celine said that he wrote the way people talk and evidently regarded this as a startling innovation. It may be considered a departure only by comparison with the preposterous presumption of the 1930s, when French novelists assumed...
Costals accepts neither. He cannot abide the idea of married coupling ("sublimation, wrangling and frenzy"). Instead, as a change from Andrée's overblown (not to say overwritten) femininity, he pursues Solange Dandillot, a pretty and reassuringly placid young thing from the Parisian upper middle class. At first she is just right for him, pliant and emotionally phlegmatic. But soon a monster, which Costals calls the Hippogriff, begins to stir in her. In short, she becomes a woman who wants to get married. To that end, she willingly suffers every humiliation that Costals can devise for her, including...
...triumphal last act, the closer it seems to be. The reason for this lack of excitement at the by-now ritually invoked vision of material Utopia is that it has been held out too often. Today, at least in wintry moments of perception, it comes on as overblown and unconvincing as a TV commercial...
Camelot--An overblown adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe musical, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. But swell music. At the FRESH POND in Fresh Pond, Cambridge...
Camelot--An overblown adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe musical, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. But swell music. At the FRESH POND in Fresh Pond, Cambridge...