Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heavy-handedness, in fact, pervades Leavitt's work; even the most empathetic reader will sometimes find his urgency, wistfulness and sentimentality excessive. When Eliot initiates Philip into the fraternity of nick-free shaving, it is Leavitt's prose that does the most bleeding...
...course, as a short novel The Enchanter can not be expected to have the same artistic complexity as Lolita. Despite its shortcomings, there is much to admire in this piece of prose. Nabokov's unmistakable flair comes across clearly in Dmitri Nabokov's sensitive and painstaking translation. When he spoke at Harvard last Thursday, Dmitri mentioned an "inviolable contract" which existed between the father as author and the son as translator, and which continued to exist even after the father's death...
...interweaving of some of these themes, the webs of imagery, the elegant prose with its pricks of irony and cadences of poetry, all make The Enchanter a worthwhile read. Admittedly it is one of the author's lesser works, a weak prototype of Lolita...
...Sorbonne, worked as a journalist and came under the influence of Albert Camus and Francois Mauriac. His first novel, Night (1958), was an indelible account of the Nazi atrocities as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy. The hell inside the death camps is described in austere, intense prose that became the author's emblem: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night . . . Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths...
...seems typical of what people say about Harvard faculty being indifferent--he doesn't seem to care much about his students," says Literature concentrator Francis Quinn '88 who took a Latin prose composition course from Bailey...