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...igth. But if the pace is swift, the scenery along the way is superb, for the history skims one of Western man's greatest achievements, the sparkling (and self-reflecting) fountain of his art. And the text is as entertaining as it is quick. A vivid refresher course in the Western heritage, the book is also an invitation to explore that heritage more deeply. To some, it will serve as a gateway, its bibliography...
Some of his friends insist that he has written his spiritual autobiography into his books. When they try to describe him, they usually fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with...
...suspected that Barrie had written it himself. Since those days, The Young Visiters has sold more than 150,000 copies in Britain, some 50,000 in the U.S. There are still many who cannot be convinced that its hilariously comic effects owe nothing to mature artistry, everything to the vivid imagination of brilliant innocence. New readers may judge for themselves by trying the new edition...
...died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...
Italy's postwar literary comeback was sparked in 1945 by Carlo Levi, a stocky ex-physician who prefers to be known as a painter. His Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), a prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...