NOTES FOR THE TWO-DOLLAR WIN–
DOW: Portraits from an American
Neighborhood, by Leonard Kriegel.
Saturday Review Press, $8.95
An
autobiographical memoir of a white
working-class neighborhood in the Bronx
from the thirties to the present, as seen
through the lives of the Irish , the Italians,
and the Jews living there. It is about
change, about wanting and hurting and
joking, and , always, about trying to get
ahead : the luck of the two-dollar window
at the race track; the chance to out–
maneuver the system . " In his new book
Kriegel has emerged as 'the Fred Exley of
the Bronx' and more ." -DAN WAKEFIELD
POETRY AND REPRESSION, by Harold
Bloom. Yale University Press, $11.95
This reinterpretation of the full sweep
of English and American romantic poetry
expands Bloom 's recent theoretical
speculations. Emphasizing practical criti–
cism , the book offers close readings of
poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley,
Keats, Tennyson , Browning, Whitman,
Yeats, and Stevens.
Poetry and Repres–
sion
contributes importantly to ideas
about literary history, working out a dia–
lectic of the way poetic tradition emerges
from the processes of revisionism and
canon -formation .
ULYSSES: A Facsimile of the Manu–
script, by James Joyce, introduction by
Harry Levin, bibliographical preface by
Clive Driver. Octagon, $150.00
The 810 pages of handwritten manu–
script of Joyce's Ulysses are here repro–
duced in two volumes by quality photo'
offset lithography. The facsimile is ac·
companied by a third volume that repro'
duces a copy of the first edition marked
with the differences between this text ,
the manuscript, and the
Little Review
installments, changes in form and con –
ception which uniquely demonstrate
Joyce's working method . The manuscript
also brings to light the many typographi–
cal errors in all printed editions, as well as
many lines overlooked in its initial tran–
scription . The student and scholar are
thus provided for the first time with the
means for establishing a definitive text.
The three volumes, stoutly boxed, are
issued in a numbered edition limited to
1,77 5 copies.
THE CULTURAL CONTRADICTIONS OF
CAPITALISM, by Daniel Bell. Basic
Books, $12.95
In this book, which concentrates on
our current cultural predicament, Daniel
Bell carries forward the discussion of his
earlier major work,
The Coming of Post–
Industrial Society.
Together, the two
volumes constitute one of the most orig–
inal and important works of social criti–
cism in our time.
IN A SHALLOW GRAVE, by James
Purdy. Arbor House, $7.50
A gripping narrative of one man who
comes back from the wars-not in a box,
but in a shallow grave, by one of Amer–
ica's most notable literary and narrative
talents. Set against a background of
elemental forces and complex human
emotion,
In
a
Shallow Grave
is a story of
the resurrection of human love and feel–
ing from the very depths.
CHILDREN OF THE SUN, by Martin
Green. Basic Books, $15.00
"Children of the Sun" is Martin Green's
term for that generation of young men
who , in the aftermath of World War I culti–
vated alternative styles of manhood-the
dandy, the rogue , and the naif-which
then became for a time the dominant
cultural styles of much of the English–
speaking world . Green traces the fate of
that gifted generation through the lives of
two of its central figures , Harold Acton
and Brian Howard, and some forty of their
friends, such as Evelyn Waugh , Randolph
Churchill, W.H. Auden , Christopher
Isherwood, Stephen Spender, " Kim"
Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Mac–
Lean . " ... a writer who makes us con–
scious of significant connections ... [Mr.
Green) has ... written a very important
book."-HILTON KRAMER,
New York
Times
Book Review.
I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM IF I
COULD, by Leonard Michaels. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, $7.95
Leonard Michael's first book of stories,
Going Places ,
was nominated for the
National Book Award, translated into
European and Oriental languages, and
imitated by perceptive writers.
I Would
Have Saved Them
If
I Could
differs in
several respects but is just as quick and
precise. Again Michaels is obsessed with
city life, views of the sexual body/erotic
brain , and modern styles of living .
