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...Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher Cerf had praised Fable's lucidity, Howe added: "If Bennett Cerf understands it, I'm sure that everyone else will...
...CRAZY DOCTOR (248 pp.]-Arle Van der Lugi-Random...
...lanky woman in dark glasses, wild bobbed hair and flat-heeled shoes could be none other than retired Cinemactress Greta Garbo, 48. As she got off a plane in Los Angeles after a virtually anonymous year in Europe, a newsman popped a random question: "Are you in love-are you going to be married?" He was on the wrong track. "Please," replied Garbo with distaste, "I do not want to talk about that. I'm so tired-so very tired." Then she was driven off to her chosen limbo...
...FABLE (437 pp.)-William Faulkner -Random House...
...went into his writing. He might, with equal pertinence, have dwelt on the agony and sweat that he requires of his readers. To his admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort by a great writer, one that few other writers would attempt. Even when it does...