Title: s. spilka
Product review: An amazingly observant and psychologically astute writer. The narrative progresses with the robustness of a full river, the grace of a swallow-tailed kite, and the breathless precision of tight-rope walker. As an English professor I can attest to the accuracy of the descriptions of academic life, but the satirical perspective is by necessity limiting. The eloquence and the beauty of great literature are themes nowhere to be found in this book (which itself is great literature). Also if satire it is (and the humor is indeed rollicking)I wish it expressed more scorn for the penetration of the market into academia. But perhaps the book was written too early for that. I was particularly moved by the evident love, resistant to satire, between the narrator and his wife, Lily. I must also say that the book hits you in the stomach, which, as Kafka would probably agree, is the sign of a good book.
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