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MUNSONVILLE READER DEAR READER: Thank you for your fine suggestion. I agree, the letter is worth republishing. Here...
Perhaps their quest is for what they find: hostility, hallucination, more intense dislocation, the last retreat of death-Bowles doesn't say. After several novels, books of stories and essays, he is still the inscrutable artist. He fixes his characters in his own hopeless wastelands and in the reader's shocked consciousness. His warped people are beyond help because they will not help themselves. They have surrendered, and Bowles, the devil's advocate, grinds them further into defeat. He is American fiction's leading specialist in melancholy and insensate violence...
...seems to us that the reporter does a disservice to the reader by such gross inaccuracies--inaccuracies which present an overall picture which is contrary to fact. Charles P. Whitlock Assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations Alan McClennen Cambridge Planning Director Paul J. Frank, Executive Director Citizens Advisory Committee formerly Acting Director Cambridge Redevelopment Authority
Vladimir Nabokov once remarked that the ideal reader for his books would be someone like himself, "a little Nabokov." There may never be one, for it would be hard to match him even in junior size. Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been able to alter the language of their craft. Above all, he is a unique artificer in the arid world of contemporary fiction...
...awed by the master that he plays down his flaws and goes to ingenious extremes to explain away Nabokov's limited emotional resources or the coldness that occasionally turns high comedy into desolating farce. More important, he seems to lack breadth: it would have been good for the reader to find some comparison of Nabokov with such a contemporary as Isaac Babel, another great Russian who stayed home to his grief, or with such predecessors as Tolstoy and Henry James. Within these limitations, the book offers clear thinking and uncluttered prose; it is a fitting guide to the most...