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...Hibbs, 61, longtime editor of Curtis Publishing Co.'s Saturday Evening Post, and Kenneth Stuart, 57, the Post's longtime art editor, are moving to the Reader's Digest: Hibbs as a senior editor, Stuart as art director. The shifts are late echoes of Curtis' serious and continuing financial troubles. Last week, Curtis announced the loss of $15,481,641 for the first nine months of the year...
...severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis school ("Metaphor pounded at his temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory...
...least, that is what the leaves are supposed to do. But very soon the reader is lost in the flickering, apparently patternless shift of focus from decade to decade, family to family, nephew to third cousin to great-great-grandaunt...
...book has its strengths; Bell has a powerful sense of dynasty and a mystic's attraction to the land. The irony of his failure is that the more he tries to express the interconnectedness of all the land and all the dynasties, the more the reader rebels. It may be true, as Thomas Wolfe believed, that "every moment is a window on all time," but Bell crawls in and out these windows with the objectless glee of a boy exploring a vacant mansion...
...shriveled 39-year-old spinster. At the same time, he carries on an affair with Adela, the youngest Alba daughter and the only beauty in the family. Another sister, the hunchback Martirio, is also in love with Pepe. The rest can be left to the imagination of the reader...