Word: unrealism
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...their perilous journeys, the garden of 1963 is even less a place of simple contentment. Candide and his retinue are annoyed and bored. Instead of ending on the faintly optimistic note of "mais il faut cultiver notre jardin," Carbonnaux ends by havng Candide dream craxily of the unreal, naive happiness of his youth...
...terms of this barren pettifoggery, Auchincloss works out a dozen neat but wholly unreal fictional theorems. They are good stories in the sense that the recognizable counters are moved to the appropriate squares. Lawyer A from Yale, with the dark tie and thick short hair, goes one up (associate to partner), B from Columbia, with the silvery tie and slick hair, goes down and out. And so the game goes on down Wall Street, with imaginary ladders and real snakes...
These passages -- and there are others--are funny, but it is hardly the stuff of which "major novels of our time" are made. And often Miss McCarthy's spoofs are edged with a bitterness that makes them unreal, satires on satires about unthinking progressives imprisoned by cliches...
...conversation was unreal...
Although the bed-and-beard similarities are inescapable, Run with the Devil is a more ambitious and professional undertaking than Greenwich Village Story. But perhaps to Romans it seems just as silly and unreal...