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...most recent novels, “Everyman,” deals explicitly with a character taking stock of his life beginning at his own funeral. In “Indignation,” Roth explores, albeit in a few sentences, the most interesting aspect of Marcus’s story??the idea of the naked consciousness revisiting life after the death of the body, in utter solitude. It seems as fitting an oar as any, but Roth has other plans in the end.Marcus’s consciousness is the result of all his life?...
...spent there that I noticed more acutely the way in which Welty’s stories unfold in such specific landscapes. I had always loved her characters, but they can only exist near places like the Pearl River of “The Wide Net.” The story??s protagonist is searching the river for the body of his wife, who may or may not have drowned herself. Despite the gravity of the main character’s situation, he remains placid, just like the river Welty describes: “The sandbars were pink...
Before Erich W. Segal ’58 penned the romantic novel “Love Story??—the iconic tale of a Harvard man and Radcliffe woman who fall for each other—he wrote notes for his roommates to express his creativity...
...Written in Dunster J-39, “Love Story?? was composed in the same room in which Segal completed half a monograph on Euripides and Meander...
...This is how that “Love Story??—The New York Times number one bestseller and number one box office attraction in 1971—was born...