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Using a terse, first person voice, Brackman must imply a great deal through the order and content of the narrator's descriptions. But sometimes the detail is overly suggestive, forcing the reader to seek answers which simply cannot be found within the story. Nonetheless, if Brackman only hints at some relations and sources of motivation, he creates a genuinely poignant mood of wistful loneliness through a difficult narrative technique...
...reign in Spain, postulates the author, is "the cult of virility," and woman's fate is to be "enslaved and betrayed." On the reader's acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only...
...reading is a good way of tapping the resources available to a House drama society, since sets, costumes, and the usual weeks of rehearsal are not required. And "Everyman" lends itself to such a production. A reader may not have time to create a character, but he can create caricature; "Everyman's" dramatic personae is made up of caricatures. There is also no on-stage action to be lost. I was surprised, however, to find that the lines that seem so stilted in print develop a good amount of tension on stage...
Attacking English with a French accent, Swedish Actress Sallert is a lip reader's delight; baffled playgoers may feel that she is singing in tongues. As it happens, missing the show's lines is a fringe benefit, unless one relishes lame quips ("For someone who was a postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming...
...been twelve years since Ellison published his only novel; for some seven years now, while teaching at various universities, he has been working on his second. While these essays are a notable stopgap in Ellison's career, a necessary breather perhaps, a reader can only hope that there will soon be a sequel to The Invisible Man; for brilliant fiction makes a better case against segregation than the best polemics. As Ellison notes: "I learned very early that in the realm of the imagination all people and their ambitions and interests could meet...