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...students love it. Whether the popularity of Slavic 155 can be attributed to the fiendish length of the reading assignments (second largest in the Colleges, next to Professor Levin's "Proust, Joyce and Mann"), to the accrbic brilliance of the instructor, or simply to the fascination of the reading itself, there is no doubt that Poggioli is one of the most unorthodox lecturers around. His students are attracted to him as inevitably as he is to wisecracks. And while he always lectures with a pipe in his teeth, he does not always notice that it is sometimes upside down...
...coffeehouse, and was taken up by the new masters of the countinghouse. In his excellent new study, Biographer Hesketh Pearson (G.B.S., Dickens, Oscar Wilde) calls Scott "the first of the best-selling novelists." In his artful little life of the elder Dumas, Biog rapher André Maurois (Proust, Disraeli, Voltaire) says: "Better than any other novelist, Dumas knew how to share and satisfy the passions of the masses...
...writing. Religion is a subject he refuses to discuss at all. He is equally ill at ease in the world of the ruminative intellectual. But he recognizes that in that world there is much worth knowing. In the bright sun, Hemingway recalls the shut-in figure of Marcel Proust. "Because a man sees the world in a different way and sees more diverse parts of the world does not make him the equal of a man like Marcel Proust," says Hemingway humbly. "Proust knew deeper and better than anyone the life of which he wrote...
...Proust is gone. Hemingway reaches down, grabs one of the rods by its tip and pulls it to the roof. He jerks once to set the hook, then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about...
...modern Europe's greatest novelists, including Proust. Mann and Joyce, European culture is a dying patient at whose bedside they have arrived too late. Societies in rigor mortis also fascinated Robert Musil, a little-known Austrian ex-army officer, who began dissecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1922 in a novel called The Man Without Qualities, and kept at it until he died 20 years and 2,000 pages later. U.S. publishers of the book are releasing one-fifth of it at a time (the first installment appeared last year-TIME, June 8, 1953). It is a fascinating book...