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...toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails to develop this suggestion beyond referring the reader as usual to Long Day's Journey and pointing out that those two woman-hating geniuses, Nietzsche and Strindberg, became O'Neill's literary idols and remained so to the end. At least one girl sensed young Eugene's mother hangup. Beatrice Ashe, whom...
...before the public. Three of the six stories in the collection, Looking for Mr. Green, The Gonzaga Manuscripts and A Father-to-Be, first appeared between hard covers in the 1956 edition of Seize the Day. This fact Bellow's publisher has conspicuously avoided mentioning. But once the reader gets into the stories, annoyance gives way to grudging gratitude, for these are fine examples of the craft of short fiction...
Both The Old System and Mosby's Memoirs are soft Bellow, but even so, these stories lead the reader to the contemplation of man-the rational animal who too often finds it so easy to rationalize that other men's rationalizations are irrational...
...English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...