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...death," the narrator incants as she traces the life of her lover, a Greek freedom fighter. In painstaking detail, she relates to him what she has learned since his brutal death--what was coincidence, what was inevitable. Part survivor, part vindicator, the narrator mentions herself infrequently and addresses the reader just once. This is no one's story but her lover's, a story so great, teaching a lesson so timeless, that Oriana Fallaci uses classical Greek tragedy as her literary foundation. Full of prophecy, fatalism and resigned sadness. A Man mourns the inexorability of both love and destruction...
...with electric shocks; days after finishing five years in prison, he resumes dangerous underground activities; to embarrass the government, he begs the jury hearing his case to punish him with a death sentence. In his moral perfection, Alekos transcends us all, just as he transcends his biographer, leaving the reader humiliated, numb, outside...
...Edwin Drood continuations appear. The Decoding of Edwin Drood (Scribners; $10.95) is written by Charles Forsyte, the nom de plume for a husband-and-wife team of British mystery writers. The Forsyte book picks up where Dickens departed but omits the preceding chapters. The reader is left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer...
...subject from some surprising angle. Dickens, he insists, is anything but sentimental in his treatment of children in Bleak House. Madame Bovary, that supposed landmark of realism, he finds to be a tissue of implausibilities (although he adds that they do not matter). Above all, he continually exhorts the reader to look for his own angles, to read "not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle." Of the three guises that he says any great writer assumes-storyteller, teacher, enchanter-he leaves no doubt about which...
...Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments of life by "quick cutting" people from, say, home to office by means of roving teams armed with chloroform and stretchers. Another would provide a personalized morning newspaper, summarizing what a reader did the night before...