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...
onions layers
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
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.
full
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.
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.