Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NAIPAUL NEVER escapes from a problem which he admits he had as an Oxford student: ignoring real life in favor of "metropolitan material," that undefined something that "the writer" is supposed to write about. The older narrator deplores the romantic fantasies he wrote when he was younger. Yet that is just what the book goes back to after the brief respite of "The Journey": a sappy fantasy of English country life, elaborating on what he already has said in the first section...
...Naipaul's panoramic description of his neighbors and surroundings is overdone. He seems obsessed with the village's landscape, describing the land and people the way English romantics have done for centuries. He is once again writing what he is "supposed" to write instead of giving us some penetrating new insight...
...educated lawyer pumped Mellon loans to energy companies in the Southwest and beefed up its real estate portfolio in Dallas and other oil towns. The lending and real estate business foundered along with OPEC: energy-related loans now account for more than half of Mellon's $1.45 billion in write-offs and nonperforming assets. Mellon also has $178 million in repossessed properties, a sixfold increase from what it owned in late 1984. Bad loans to Mexico and Brazil further crimped the bank's strained resources. To make matters worse, Barnes soured relations in 1984 with a longtime local client, Gulf...
Rybakov intends to take two more such political and literary steps. "I have already started the next part of the story, with the working title 1935 and Other Years. That will go through 1938," he says. "Then I want to write a third volume to cover the war. If God grants me six more years...
...does not help; only Elizabeth Franz manages to find the right kind of placid earnestness for Durang's language. For this, Mrs. Sorken at least deserves praise: I only wish she had more to present. The best way for Durang to improve the current state of theater is to write more plays as good as those we have already seen from him; he should leave parody to those incapable of anything else...