DON'T NEVER FORGET

by Brigid Brophy ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 17, 1967

Like the flashy elegance of her fictional charades, novelist Brigid Brophy also manipulates eye-catching critical opinions. With unblinking aplomb she states that Firbank's Pirelli is one of ""the three greatest novels of the twentieth century."" Elsewhere: ""the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."" These ""collected views and reviews"" bubble with the extravagance of an intellectual whorehouse; the most advanced tastes can be had, the hippier the better: Peter Pan should be treated ""as a play for adults"" like those ""sentimental masterpieces"" Private Lives and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What a delightful guide to a literary orgy: where else could one find interesting essays on Louisa M. Alcott and Jean Genet? Miss Brophy brims with rococo appreciations, split-level sophistication: Bette Davis is wowingly compared to St. Teresa because both are ""classical Oedipus cases, Simone de Beauvoir ""is a plodder par excellence."" Truly, there's madness in her method (speak right off the top of your clever little head), but also an unerring theatrical sense of hi-jinks and the high play of startling, witty, apothegmatic ideas, buoyantly, contrived, splendidly polished.

Pub Date: April 17, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION