Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...
PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...
HISTOIRE by Claude Simon. 341 pages. Braziller...
France's Claude Simon would agree with all these propositions, but he is less interested in erecting models of a thesis than in exploring the possibilities of language. In Histoire, as in The Wind, The Grass and other books, he turns fragments of the imagination into poetry rather than into the monotone prose that is the mark of most New Novels. Histoire should be read as poetry, which means it should be read aloud. Speed readers, trained to sop up information and the dull acknowledgments of psychological and sociological fiction, will have to shift into low. Histoire...
...this is wondrously irrelevant to the overall lyric effect. Simon can be chided for the illusory pun of his title and for his helpful but distracting prefatory lines from Rilke: "It submerges us. We organize it. It falls to pieces. We organize it again and fall to pieces ourselves." But Simon is at ease with uncertainties and loose ends. In fact, loose ends are his antennae. How he uses them to convey his own private perceptions is his mystery...