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None of the attempts to solve the Drood mystery is an aesthetic or financial success. George Bernard Shaw offers a reason: the novel was "a gesture by a man already three-quarters dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards...
There's also an aesthetic appeal to the game, as one female player who refused to identify herself exclaimed, "It's always nice to check out their legs."
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so...
This tension between private vision and public violence unified a group of Polish wartime writers. Milosz went underground in Warsaw where he battled the Germans with a clandestine press, firing the spirit of resistance with articles and anti-Nazi poetry. From 1946 to 1950, he served in Washington and Paris...
On the spare aesthetic side are Radio On and Union City, two story films with rock references. Radio On (title signifying the primary mechanical function for properly operating a motor vehicle) was financed by Road Movies, the Wim Wenders film company. It comes as no surprise that the film is...