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...allegory for Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. The entirety of the novel, from Axler’s time in a mental institution following his breakdown, to his affair with a 20-years-junior lesbian family friend named Pegeen Mike (after a character in Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World”), and his final projection fantasy and eventual ‘humbling’ at Pegeen’s hands, is essentially in deference to that central question. It?...
...Humbing”—of age, of gender, of morality—and the subtlety and variety with which it’s applied, makes it clear that Roth is still capable of telling a story that engages the intellect. A particularly graphic sex scene between Axler, Pegeen and a woman the couple picks up takes on the metaphorical power of Greek drama or Freudian apocrypha; “There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though… Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal...
...Hugh” Malone ’08), a traveler with a gift for blarney who arrives in a small town in Ireland’s County Mayo claiming to have killed his father. Christy wins the praise of the town and the love of Pegeen Mike (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08), a feisty townswoman, for the bravery he affects in his vivid story of patricide; things get complicated when his father (Arlo D. Hill ’08) shows up with a head wound and angry questions.As the final Mainstage of the year...
...idle to put his early work in the '40s and '50s on the same level as De Kooning's or Pollock's. He certainly shared the early Abstract Expressionist interest in primitive art, totems, archetypal forms. And its general legacy from '30s Picasso too: Pousette-Dart's Portrait of Pegeen, 1943 (the subject was the deeply neurotic teenage daughter of Peggy Guggenheim, his dealer), is heavily dependent on Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. There is also a scary Expressionist insight to the chaotic congestion of Pegeen's head, staring at her reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond...
DIED. Ed Fitzgerald, 89, chatty, erudite radio veteran who teamed with his wife Pegeen 43 years ago to start one of the first husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...