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...The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce. Which books will be sold here in 20 years, if any books are sold here at all?...
...The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader, Jonathan Cape, RRP£35/ Knopf, RRP$40 This second and final volume picks up with Bellow now 49 years old and seemingly at the height...
...The accordion is used in intriguing ways, its slowly contracting bellows creating an otherworldly glow, but the gesture is repeated ad nauseam for a soliloquy in which the soloist (Krassimir Sterev) madly...
...Saul Bellow, another who seemed to have taken demotion from the top tier with grace, fought back with Ravelstein. He was 85....
...But the thing about those other two Irish writers is that Beckett used such a technique principally in plays that last only a few minutes, and Joyce as one style among many in his Ulysses....
...Liebling was drawn to boxing, but so were Joyce Carol Oates and William Hazlitt, neither of whom is easily pictured doing high-speed pad work amid buckets of bloodied spit in a basement gym....
...Proteus is the video game equivalent of James Joyce’s Ulysses, only less eventful. At least Bloom occasionally picks his nose....
...A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, when I was 17. It thrilled me so profoundly. What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?...
...James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It made me want to be a writer. How many words do you write per day? I aim for 800. Favourite drink while you’re writing?...
...Some food choices attempt to communicate one’s moral energy and/or devotion: in Saul Bellow’s story “What Kind of Day Did You Have?”...
...Pritchett, Saul Bellow … But any young squirt, you’re not going to read except out of a kind of sociological curiosity.”...
...As the music churns and bellows the dancers do the kinetic equivalent....
...Rumsfeld bellows....
...For Nathan it comes in the form of a feisty Italian Brooklynite, Joyce Mazzuchelli....
...What Dublin is to Joyce or St Petersburg to Dostoyevsky, so Chicago is to Bellow....
...Further proof, Toibin joked, that Joyce had a Brazilian woman in mind when he wrote it. Some things were surprising by their sheer unlikelihood....
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