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BECKETT
IBECKETT
Vivian Mercier. Combining a
persuasive dialectical method with
a personal approach
to
the Nobel
Prize writer's background and
works , Mercier explores aspects of
Beckett's art that are often over–
looked , such as his affinities with
Racine _He has "the literary keen–
ness to track Beckett steadily and
effortlessly.... A fine studY:'
- Roger Shattuck 272 pp. $11 .95
SEEING THROUGH
EVERYTHING
English Writers
1918-1940
William Pritchard. "A book
whose friendliness , honesty, and
unpretentiousness are welcome .
Where others have been inse–
curely highminded and.
mecha~ical and even cruel , PrItchard IS
unfailingly humane and humor–
ous'.' - Paul Fussell . " I have en–
joyed Pritchard's c;:r.iticis.m ever
since he began wntmg It. . .. All
[his] virtues shine forth in this
book:' - Mark Schorer 288 pp.
$10 .00. Available in August.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS
OFJOYCE .
Richard EHmann. From his dis–
covery of the novelist's working
library, Ellmann traces the lit–
erary ancestry of
Ulysses
and dis–
cusses how Joyce triangulated
himself with Homer and Shake–
speare. "His saturation in Joyc;:e's
life and work;' as John UpdIke
once wrote , "is one of the wonders
of present American literary schol–
arship:' 128 pp. $7.95
ELIOT'S EARLY
YEARS
Lyndall Gordon. "One of the
precious handful of Eli<;>t studies
in the last decade whIch have
given us fresh
news
about the
elusive poet of
The Wast e Land:'
- William Arrowsmith. "It has
merit as biography, as interpre–
tation, and as criticism - a diffi –
cult synthesis, here achieved
thanks to clear thought and dis–
tinguished writing'.' - Jacques
Barzun 250 pp . 12 photographs
$8 .95
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