Cornell University Press/206 pgs
Good condition
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Mrs. Caldwell's progression from lucidity to madness (she dies in an insane asylum,) allows Cela to display the whole range of his lyrical gifts. (...) (T)he miscellaneous and impersonal nature of the aphorism never threatens the intimacy and the unity of this lovely book. - Christopher Maurer, The New Republic
The atmosphere of Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son is euphuistic and rarefied. (...) In spite of its occasional strange beauty, the novel seems just that irrelevant: a madwoman interminably addressing a dead person who was never very real to her in the first place. (...) This book in its sterile brilliance is a retreat into abstraction, and its technique is in a tradition as paradoxically fossilized as the regime which invents paradoxes for the sake of "order". - Peter Sourian, The New York Times Book Review
Cornell University Press/206 pgs
Good condition
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Mrs. Caldwell's progression from lucidity to madness (she dies in an insane asylum,) allows Cela to display the whole range of his lyrical gifts. (...) (T)he miscellaneous and impersonal nature of the aphorism never threatens the intimacy and the unity of this lovely book. - Christopher Maurer, The New Republic
The atmosphere of Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son is euphuistic and rarefied. (...) In spite of its occasional strange beauty, the novel seems just that irrelevant: a madwoman interminably addressing a dead person who was never very real to her in the first place. (...) This book in its sterile brilliance is a retreat into abstraction, and its technique is in a tradition as paradoxically fossilized as the regime which invents paradoxes for the sake of "order". - Peter Sourian, The New York Times Book Review
