Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Characters. A U.S. reader prepared to shoulder through Powell's bewildering social underbrush will be rewarded by glimpses of some exotic game and gamy exotics...
...lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While the attempt to make four eccentric figures speak for an entire era is muddled, the figures themselves-four characters in search of a historian-provide enough entertaining episodes to make the reader wish he had gone to one of their blowouts...
burden to bear. The characters are not content to view each other ironically or come to an ironic realization of self; but Guerard himself is ironic about Anthony, and about reality. And the reader has to be somewhat ironic about Guerard...
...Reader Lednem (real name: Lewis F. Williams) prefers that his nom de plume be spelled backwards...
Compulsive Eye. The hero of Portrait of a Man Unknown is a potbellied Frenchman, no longer young, who seems to live with his aging parents. That is about all the reader ever finds out about him. Most of his time seems to be spent in checking up on the activities of an old maid and her father. Both father and daughter were born under the sign of French avarice. The girl whines and begs for money, the father accuses her of hoarding what he gives her. One night he dashes barefoot and in his nightgown into the kitchen, climbs...