Ironweed author7/1/2023 ![]() Give me the real thing, anythingīy Max Brand or Ernest Haycox, say, rather than E. A pox on Graham Greene! Who needs his wretched allegories? Give me Eric Ambler every time. I have a double prejudice against mythifications, especially when what's being mythified is the raw material of an entertainment. The intention of a lyrical novelist, I mean, is not to render, not to disappear behind the greater reality of his characters and their doings, but to flash his wounded heart, his noble soul, his soaring imagination, his He dissolves his characters and events into a nimbus of A lyrical novelist is less interested in his fictions than in his attitudes toward them. $14.75.įRANKLY, I have a prejudice against lyrical novels, and not just because they make me think of Anais Nin. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy George Stade George Stade is a professor of English at Columbia University and author of ''Confessions of a Lady-Killer, ''a novel. January 23, 1983, Sunday, Late City Final Edition ![]()
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