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272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
It is one thing to write The Sound and the Fury, to achieve the artistic transcendence of discerning meaning in the madness of the twentieth century, then to finish it, then to find oneself at Reed’s drugstore the next morning. A major problem of re-entry, not solved, but anaesthetized by alcohol.
It is something else to listen to a superb performance of Mozart’s Twenty-first Piano Concerto, to walk out into Columbus Circle afterwards. At best, a moderately sustained exaltation; at worst, a mild letdown.