Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe you're right in feeling that he understates the part-it's the Method, and it isn't noted for its ability to cope with poetic cadences. But when he says that the fall of Oedipus is inevitable, gods or no gods, you ought to believe him. The gods have been blamed long enough. Arrogance alone causes Oedipus' problems. His arrogant, or if you prefer, hubristic pride is the tragic flaw in an otherwise noble character...
...Carrè tells about that journey through nothingness with the same clean, tough style that he mastered in his earlier works-a lucid grasp on the physical and emotional landscapes that allows him the occasional power of poetic insight...
With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst...
...Banish Kapitalizm. Solzhenitsyn is a rare master of the Russian language ?not the debased, impenetrably formula-ridden Russian produced by two decades of Stalinist newspapers, schoolbooks and speeches, but the rich mother Russian that calls on all the ancient, all the regional, and all the poetic...
McCarthy's re-creation of the local dialect is surpassed by his poetic descriptions of the land and its people. His is an Irish singing voice imbued with Southern Biblical intonations. The result is an antiphony of speech and verse played against a landscape of penance. And, finely controlied as it is, his simple narrative with its suspenseful qualities becomes a profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time...