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...background, that the voice and soul of the residents of Catfish Row are heard. Porgy is their story, and the celebrated songs like Bess, You Is My Woman Now are only fancy melodic finery. At the Met, the all-black chorus, assembled and trained by David Stivender and Lloyd Walser, steals the show...
FICTION: Mantissa, John Fowles -A Midnight Clear, William Wharton Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett
Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley ∙ Mantissa, John Fowles Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett
...Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century. So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end. In The Job Application, Walser portrays a degree of diffidence that borders on catatonia: "I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm...
Short of such negative nirvanas, Walser's characters amuse themselves by strolling about. The Walk, a record of one such expedition and the longest piece in this collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being...