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Title: Frank but not enlightening
Review: Having just read two wonderful Proust-haunted books (HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Alan de Botton and DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS by Andrei Makine), I thought to round off with Phyllis Rose's take on the magnetic author. What a disappointment! Where Proust convinces us of the ephemeral verities of life, Rose (a writer and critic here-to-fore admired) assures merely of the shallowness, the superficialities of a self-centered "literary" existence. Frank without being enlightening, quotidean to the point of banality, Rose shocks the reader by portraying in what seems an ungenerous if not viperous spirit all friends and loved ones but her mother, whose endurable qualities rise like cream to the top of the froth. Maybe what sets the teeth on edge are grammatical errors (I/me mistakes) in three early chapters and a late one. Still, one wonders why this author needed to publish, let alone write, a book so disadvantageous to herself and others.
