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Here is the flat art of realism matched to the flatness of small-town American life, a genre as old as Winesburg, Ohio and Main Street. What then makes Jones' lives under glass more than mementos in a Texas museum? For one thing, sheer theatricality. Jones is a master of timing. He knows just when to end a scene, and exactly how much sentimentality to balance against exactly how much humor. Above all, he has an ear for dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure...
Ibsen's theme is universal. In American terms, it means that Ibsen would approve Sherwood Anderson's vision of the crabbed, tormented, camouflaged souls of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than the blithely idealized innocents of Thornton Wilder's Grovers Corners. In European terms, James Joyce perhaps came closest to Ibsen when he wrote, "Ireland is the old sow that eats its own farrow...
...begins with a detailed list of characters. He pokes fun at 20th century realism by attaching a death certificate at the end of the book. No one should be fooled-or disappointed. For what we have here is not realism, but natural supernaturalism turned loose on middle America. Imagine Winesburg, Ohio or Faulkner's Sartor is as they might have been written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bulging with genius and philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from...
What was it like to be married to Howard Hughes? Well, said Jean Peters, who underwent that experience for 14 years but now wanted to talk to the press about her return to acting in a TV version of Winesburg, Ohio, there was a bit of spare time. She studied psychology at U.C.L.A., she tried "the whole range of arts and crafts," she did door-to-door political polling, and she read textbooks for taping by the Braille Institute until "I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice any more." But what was it really like...
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...