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Dumb Disciples. For the rest, there are serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...
...kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused mouth...
...experimental writers of the early 20th century were men and women with a high sense of mission. Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf-each sought a new way to get some of the juice of life on to the printed page. Their imitators have chiefly proved that most of them are. in a broad sense, inimitable...
...fact that it is well taught and well received does not make English 10 what is needed. Omitting such authors as Byron, Shelly, Browning, Forester and Woolf, it does not pretend to be comprehensive. At the same time not enough is read of any single author to give the student a complete view of him. Nor is it a survey course's function to do so. Instead, it should touch on more major authors, reading less of each to make up for the increase in number. This would help broaden the student's grasp of English literature...
...prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained by some of them...