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Writing courses at Harvard "encourage a great deal of freedom for students," Fitzgerald said, adding that he "would be surprised if instructors were ungenerous toward free experiment in writing." However, he also maintains that what one "ultimately wants is writing that gives satisfaction to both the writer and the reader. To obtain that, some standard has to be kept...
...course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away the plot a bit early. But who cares? A man would have to be a brutish lout not to fall for Clara, with her "brown, firm hand - no, not so very small, my sentimental reader...
Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...
...common reader, Beckett is really not linguistically obscure. His care in translation demonstrates his commitment to ordinary, idiomatic language, both English and French. His own work clearly departs from the ideals of Joyce, whose Finnegan's Wake he so strongly praises: "You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate...
...there before was a nebbish, but I think I like the way he wore his hair better. Didn't neglect it like this guy does. But I suppose it's benign. (Note: this is an obligatory joke, which may be skipped at the discretion of the reader...