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...Canvas, Roman Tales), the excitement has progressively decelerated, and in the present collection of 41 short stories Moravia has attained what might most charitably be described as a creative pause. His milieu is comfortable, upper-middle-class Italy. His characters are dead souls, stifled with boredom and loneliness, who wander their existential wasteland groaning under the stylish burdens of too much money, too much leisure, too little heart. The women are shallow, complacent, cruel; the men are feeble, nervous, dependent; all fritter away their lives in a little hectic experiment that the protagonists like to call love. Moravia calls...
...bull riding," Wegner says, and he is luckier than most: he has only a smashed vertebra and a broken foot to show for 14 years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned...
...guilty thought, the whirling of noise and action about a point in time, a sense of inexplicable release--all these Roth evokes with mysterious ease. Call It Sleep is a quiet masterpiece that grows in the mind even after one puts it down. To read it is to wander half awake through a world as strange and familiar as the one we live...
...society." Anthea finds brief ecstasy in a scramble on the sand with a local rebel. But he indifferently leaves town, and she relapses into marriage to a rich miser of the affections. Her husband is mercifully killed in an automobile accident, and she is left the money to wander the world, a rich exile with her looking glass for judge...
...fantasies through which we wander in The Words are wonderfully treated, for Sartre is a writer of frightening soft power. They often catch something in the preconscious of the reader and they hold it as the shock of recognition floods in. But while a portion of these fantasies are conscious and intended, most of them are not. Sartre has, for example, to some degree, the illusion of having experienced a perfect infancy. Because his father died when he was very young, Sartre believes he escaped the burden of Oedipal difficulties stemming from father-son competition...