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...Cathleen Schine...
...author of witty and mysterious curiosities, Cathleen Schine, takes an unexpected, wrong turn to the Galapagos Islands with The Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names of famous thinkers such as Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, Schine sets out to prove, as she stated in an interview, that she "is a pseudo-intellectual. And [she's] really good...
...there are moments when Schine shines. She gives an occasional revelation about self-knowledge and a meaningful insight about the ways woman bond--but these are scarce. Jane believes that Martha gives "a sort of glorious uniform of the soul, new and intricate and ever changing, which [she] could put on each morning without thinking or choosing, which [she] could wear all day and even at night and revel in the pleasure of the fabric against [her] skin, the swirl of the skirts, the elegant shape." These rare and vivid images are beautiful and show Schine's strength...
DIED. G. DAVID SCHINE, 68, the Joseph McCarthy aide whose controversial Army stint led to the historic 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings; in a private-plane crash that also killed his wife and a son; in Burbank, California. The hearings exposed the Senator's communist-hunting excesses and led to his downfall...
Rameau's Niece has some redeeming moments, Schine has a good eye for detail and for capturing the essence of a scene, it is becoming her own aesthetic signature. Ultimately, the work crumbles under the weight of its unwieldy structure and its astonishing social anachronisms...