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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANCER IN DARKNESS (247 pp.)-David Stacton-Pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disbelief on a Gibbet | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly. Stacton's gong clashes are malevolent aphorisms, asides spoken to Nemesis, hard little explanations of motive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disbelief on a Gibbet | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...characters who vibrate to Stacton's obsessive music move in a dim past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disbelief on a Gibbet | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...plot of this old nightmare is too athletic to be staged successfully in an age dulled by realism, but in Stacton's retelling it moves as smoothly as the oiled gears of a stretching rack. The reader's disbelief is abruptly suspended-as from a gibbet-as the rich young widowed duchess runs off with her lover Antonio, and her brothers, the bloody Ferdinand and the scheming Cardinal, stalk her to earth for profit and incestuous love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disbelief on a Gibbet | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A cool, clear fictional account of the Mayan civilization's collapse before the Spanish conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 6, 1962 | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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