Word: sean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SUMMER IN ITALY (248 pp.)-Sean O'Faolain-Devin-Adair...
City of Flowers. Irish Catholic Sean O'Faolain (Come Back to Erin, King of the Beggars) is the latest in a long line of Northerners to make such an attempt. A Slimmer in Italy is not only an excellent, heartfelt guide to most of the principal cities of the peninsula, it is also admirably designed to salve the blows of disillusionment that many a pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though...
...work by a rising new British author. Angus Wilson is a 36-year-old Oxford man now working in the British Museum Library in London. He has large, sad, slightly protuberant eyes, the mournful, darkling air of most younger British writers, and a considerable reputation in some unexpected quarters. Sean O'Faolain has hailed him as a writer of the first rank; Vogue says his "mind has the sudden round-the-corner surprise of Saki...
Performance. Said Sean O'Faolain: "The influence of the United States on Europe is the influence of a grandchild on his grandfather. This possibly will, if all goes well, be known in time as the Aeneas-Anchises complex, in grateful commemoration of the bravery, or obstinacy, of Aeneas in carrying his purblind sire out of the crumbling city of Troy...
When this spooky little novel appeared in England last year, it threw the critics into a tizzy. Elizabeth Bowen wrote: "This book, read in two hours, haunts me"-but she could not say why. Sean O'Faolain said: "It shakes the tapestry of life like a night-wind," but admitted he was "not quite sure what it is all about...