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...READ BEFORE, enthused the Saturday Evening Post in full-page ads introducing the face lifting that was prescribed to cure its ten-year slump in ad linage. Most readers are not likely to be so certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly...
...five declared war on all forms of artistic isolation: the isolation of the artist from society, the isolation of one object from its environment, the isolation of the individual senses. Even a static object had motion, for it could not escape having some sort of tug-of-war with its surroundings. "Our bodies enter into the divans on which we sit, and the divans enter into us," explained the futurists. Motion subjected each object to minute-by-minute change: one thing always led to another, sight invariably involved sound, vision turned into emotion. All this-the total feeling of life...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Aymé. In this batch of short stories, the Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...
Vive la Différence. In this and other tales in this short-story collection, Marcel Ayme propels the reader down Alice's rabbit hole into a strange and satirical wonderland full of the perverse intractabilities of human nature. They illustrate his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrate that tension with a gusty "Vive la différence...