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...subsoil of the mind, it owes much to Joyce and Proust, and in its meticulous focusing on reality it often achieves unreal effects-just as a section of skin under a microscope does not look like skin but like a lunar landscape. Despite frequent stretches of dullness, the New Realist writers are sometimes fascinating because they have moved away from the facile psychology and sociology that filled so much fiction in the '30s and '40s; their characters seem to float through the vast emptiness of society like planets close to collision...
...from John Singleton Copley to Edward Hopper, realism seems the keynote of American art, and romanticism remains underrated. With the single exception of Albert Pinkham Ryder, the American romanticists have never achieved the fame of their realist contemporaries. To collect and cherish such little-known artists takes courage and personal conviction...
...story of the deterioration of a French provincial family, as an old aunt lies dying, is more intricate and less suited to Simon's techniques. Parts of the book are brilliant-notably the scenes of bickering between the dying woman's brother and sister-in-law. Realist Simon forces the reader to note precisely the tics and twitches of decaying minds, and to feel the texture of withering flesh. But something is lost when Simon's subject is less elemental than death. The reader never really learns what is happening to the book's narrator...
...best, and one of the most eccentric, of France's New Realist writers is Claude Simon, author of the powerful and murky novel, The Wind (TIME, April 13). His current book is a little less powerful and somewhat more murky. Author Simon's moody, fitful sentences blow on for a thousand words or so before subsiding. He qualifies each thought, hedges each qualification, follows divergent ideas out of sight through cat's cradles of parentheses and dashes. He is as fond as Faulkner of the present participle. When it seems that he must stop, affix a period...
...Edmund ("Pat") Brown, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, New York's Carmine De Sapio, is especially sensitive to the fact that a fellow Catholic will come under heavy fire both at the Los Angeles convention and in the general election. But Di Salle is also a political realist. In a series of meetings and telephone calls over the past seven months, Kennedy made it quite clear to Di Salle that 1) Kennedy's best chance of winning the nomination lies in making a strong showing in the primaries; and 2) he regarded Ohio as a must state...