Word: pedanticism
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Fizzles contains fewer jokes and suggests that Beckett's exhaustion with prose is more advanced than his boredom with drama. There are flashes of the precise, pedantic syntax that hilariously dismembered logic in such earlier novels as Murphy and Molloy, but the dominant mood is elegiac: "For an instant...
On the other hand, Newman, instinctively a popularizer, does not want to risk losing his audience. (Nothing clears the room faster than a whiff of intellectual substance.) Already, he notes, he is viewed in some quarters as "cranky and pedantic." Since his cause is crucial, and the need for converts...
With selections drawn from fairly regular intervals over these years, this book uncovers Beckett's development from a crisp but somewhat pedantic short-fiction writer ("Dante and the Lobster"), through his experimentation with the novel form (large sections of Molloy and The Unnamable), and finally into the most popularly successful...
AS A CRITIC, Updike displays the same tolerant eye for people which marks his fiction; the reviewer is not in conflict with the poet and novelist in him. His pieces, the majority of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are not pedantic and their appeal is expansive. His topics...
This absorption in politics was one reason for the breakup of his eight-year marriage to Jane Wyman. As the story goes, she was so turned off by his pedantic political analyses at the breakfast table that she walked out in 1948 with their two children, Maureen, now 34, and...