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reaction from an audience beyond provoking. In this regard, such
art is sensational because, while it purports to be investigative or
playful, more often it postures and bluffs. What we are often con–
fronted with is hyperbole and an ongoing popularization of the
sensational sensibility, which obstruct the release of true power.
Coming in
PARTISAN REVIEW
• Manes Sperber:
Reminiscences
• Fiction by Michel Tournier
• Darina Silone on Ignazio Silone's last days
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Konwicki's
The Polish
Complex
• Ronald Hayman:
New Light on Brecht
• Barbara Rose on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
• Andrei Siniavski:
The Joke Inside The Joke
• Milan Kundera on modernism
• Cornelius Castoriadis on the defense of Europe
• Octavio Paz on Central America
• An interview with Mario Vargas-Llosa
• A section on new directions in modern thought
edited by Daniel Bell
