Richard Eder
Richard Eder
Richard Gray Eder was for 20 years variously a foreign correspondent, a film reviewer and the drama critic for the New York Times. Subsequently he was book critic for the Los Angeles Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the National Book Critics Circle annual citation...
comedy great lamp playwright soviet success
This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.
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A kind of duet-she as oboe, he as contrabassoon, and full of obbligato digressions.
character energy sophisticated
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
onions layers
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
lying book silence
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
years dust chalk
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
night mind legs
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.