Word: schine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schine has an ear for authentic dialogue, especially the argot of the intelligentsia. The Washington-New York-Cambridge axis constitutes an arena for combatants to engage in calculated sparring. Schine proves to be a deft chronicler of the idiosyncracies of the tenured classes...
Parody is a sure sign of continued relevance of postmodernism. Cathleen Schine's Rameau's Niece is a thinly-veiled attack on the currently fashionable lit-crit deconstructionist crowd. (The novel shockingly does not address the hottest topic in literary studies today, transvestitism. There is only one brief reference to "The Importance of Cross-Dressing in the Symbolism of the Eleventh Century Promissory Note" and nary a fetish in sight...
Margaret is married to the 40-year old Edward, who reads like a single neurotic New Yorker's idea of the perfect man. Not only is he English, but he is handsome, forbearing, and a Columbia professor, possessed of the ultimate academic credential...an Oxford degree. (Had Schine made him a few years older, he might have known Bill Clinton at Oxford and been able to take advantage of his status as an FOB, instead of languishing in a faculty office at Columbia...
Margaret is currently working on another book, which shares the title of Schine's text, Rameau's Niece. This is the ultimate post-modern text, since it is lifted almost entirely from works of prominent philosophers of the time, such as Helvetius, Kant and naturally, Diderot. The text (within the text) is filled with double entendre about a young woman's sexual coming of age and search for enlightenment...