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...Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ($7.50), Rebecca West's two-volume, 1,200-page philosophic travelogue about Yugoslavia...
...BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON-Rebecca West-Viking...
...Alexander led Novelist West: 1) to think back to other political murders she remembered from her youth; 2) to go to a private projection where she had the newsreel of the murder of Alexander run over & over again; 3) to make a trip to Yugoslavia; 4) to write Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an omnibus record of her journey-part travelogue, part history, part philosophical and political asides-one of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time...
This is the first grim movement in the symphony of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...tactless, "a sort of Italian Caroline Lamb." She horrified one gathering, wrote Byron, "by calling out to me 'mio Byron' in an audible key, during a dead silence. ..." Mary Shelley found Teresa "a nice, pretty girl" but "her legs, in fact, were far too short for the weight they carried...