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John Frank Kermode, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at the Summer School, will speak on "Modern Literary Criticism and the Lay Reader" at Burr Hall B today...
Like a Picnic. Gut-fighting on the editorial page has largely passed from vogue. Today, many U.S. editorial cartoonists treat their cartoons merely as squiggles to relieve the boredom of the editorial page, end up boring their readers with such stereotyped figures as Uncle Sam, Justice and Lady Luck, such stock targets as drunken driving, Soviet Russia and unscrupulous landlords. To cover their own inadequacies, they often over-label until the reader misses the point for the paragraphs. "There are little figures running around labeled 'Administration,' " says the London Evening Standard's Vicky, "and if they draw...
...going to suffer a lot of irritation," wrote Graham Greene to the author, "when reviewers compare you to Evelyn." The reader turning to this novel is likely to suffer not so much irritation as a double take: the man staring from the dust jacket is the image of young Evelyn Waugh; the style and subject matter belong to Evelyn Waugh. But the author's name is Auberon, and he is 22 instead...
...survives. Then the wife dies, the child's loving nurse goes mad, an apprentice is blown to smithereens in an accident. All this Author Schmitt tells, and sometimes poignantly. But long before she gets to the real tragedies in Rembrandt's life, she has squandered the reader's ability to react. In the first half of the book, each argument or frustration is magnified into a crisis; every silence is strained or charged. Despite such emotional impasto, the book has some authority in the field of art, where Author Schmitt has plainly done her homework on painters...
...Whom the Bell Tolls, El Sordo on the hilltop is waiting to squeeze the trigger on an enemy, but it is the reader who sights along the rifle: "Look. With a red face and blond hair and blue eyes. With no cap and his moustache is yellow. With blue eyes. With pale blue eyes. With pale blue eyes with something wrong with them. With pale blue eyes that don't focus. Close enough. Too close. Yes, Comrade Voyager. Take it, Comrade Voyager...