plus
some things the 55 original critics said with moderate or better insight
17 critics, 29 quotespitiful!
& what the list lacks in quantity it
the 2 competent reviews
were by cahoon1
& rogers, both strongly
1 of the most favorable reviews was one of the worst
don stevens' Such a strikingly brilliant and major work as this necessitates aalexander woollcott lives! stevens did a little corroborative reading but mostly steals from the blurb:
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stevens |
recognitions blurb |
across the big-as-life canvas, move a score of figures. they pursue their own desired deceptions. |
Scores of characters move back and forth within the design, each one busy in pursuing his own desired deception. |
Wyatt, who forges the paintings of Old Masters |
Wyatt, is a painter who forges Old Masters |
Mr. Sinisterra, a counterfeiter |
Mr. Sinisterra is a honest-to-God counterfeiter |
Valentine, the art critic |
Basil Valentine, the corrupt and corrupting art critic |
Mrs. Deigh, the literary agent |
Agnes Deigh, the distracted literary agent |
Otto, the playwright |
Otto, the vain young playwright |
Anselm, the poet |
Anselm, the acne-ridden poet |
For the pattern of forgery is shown to be emotional and spiritual, as well as actualand gaining mo- mentum each time the world dis- cards the genuine for the paste- copy. |
The pattern of forgery, emotion- al and spiritual as well as actual a world in which the genuine is continually being discarded in fa- vor of a successful facsimile. |
He's sure to shock and anger as many as he captivates, but he should welcome the storm of con- troversy |
Readers may be shocked, or angered, or frightened a thesis and a point of view which cannot escape being controversial |
quoting from the blurb
without credits not rare3
the whole louisville courier-journal notice was stolen from the blurb favorite blurbphrase was "pattern of forgery, emotional and spiritual as well as actual" (plagiarized by burnette corrington klein & stevens) FIRE them all for theft
1for the library journala bunch of cheap crooks! on the copy of the review they sent the publisher was a form request for a bribe: "A LIBRARY JOURNAL review in the MAR 15 1955 issue. Achieve the sales potential implicit in this review by advertising in the next possible issue" (Back)
2relatively favorable
(by my application of book review digest standards): key #s
3one reviewer wrote me that when i
object to this i only arbitrarily "set up" my |