Word: fifield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. This quirky novel revolves with less than planetary steadiness around the zodiacal notions of a Polish countess who is stranded in Mexico; fortunately the author's astrologic chopping is relieved by fine descriptions of Mexican sights and sounds...
...remarkably varied collection of poems, essays and stories, joyfully cantankerous Author Graves goatfoots it, in his words, at "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head." The Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. A curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico's sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...
While only a confirmed horoscope addict will find all this fully convincing, any reader will be impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...
...whenever The Sign of Taurus stargazes too abstractedly. Author Fifield gives it a powerful tug back to the earthy sights and sounds of the country-and the sheer physical exuberance of the setting gradually converts The Sign of Taurus into a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...