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IMAGES OF TRUTH (310 pp.)-Glenway Wescott-Harper...
Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His novels-including The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)-earned him a special reputation as a prose craftsman and subtle prober of the wheels and springs of emotion that turn the clock of character. But he has produced little fiction (only five volumes since 1924) and, though he has started some projects, has published nothing for the past 17 years. Through all that time, a faithful coterie of Wescott admirers has continued to hope not only...
Images of Truth is not their long-awaited work of fiction, but it is an eloquent, at times fascinating, celebration of the arts of fiction writing. Wescott, while offering appreciations and portraits of six important modern writers, indirectly produces a memorable insight into how his own complex fiction-writer's mind savors the world. "Nothing is more original, nothing truer to oneself," he quotes Paul Valery, "than to feed on others' minds. Only be sure you digest them. The lion consists of assimilated sheep...
EUGENE M. WESCOTT University of Alaska College, Alaska...
...answer to Vellucci's questions, Wescott said he had no knowledge of the eviction of 28 families by the University or its recent property acquisitions around Cambridge...