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...separated; in another, "we always experience Mozart's music ... as the catharsis resulting from one man's sublimation of his personal crisis." Mozart is certainly elusive, as Hildesheimer claims, but here he is hidden twice: once behind his music and again behind his latest biographer. -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time, not so real." -By R.Z. Sheppard...
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...Peter De Vries' line about the writer who puts readers into a diving bell and takes them down three feet. Aunt Julia is an ingenious and delightful turnabout, a glass-bottom social comedy that offers some deep, dark perspectives to those who care to look down. -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...other novels know that Daniel becomes an expatriate writer like the author. To the extent that this suggests autobiography, the image of Daniel drawing himself drawing himself is a special effect, a quiet counterpoint to popular entertainments like TRON in which characters noisily inhabit their electronic fictions. -By R.Z. Sheppard...