Tuesday, April 12, 2022

In case you wondered …

… Does a Literary Titan Need a Titanic Biography? - Intercollegiate Studies Institute. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Lee makes use of the drama in Stoppard’s life in telling her story. She has also been given access to his personal letters, and she demonstrates a novelist’s skill in depicting the complexities of her many characters. This includes not just Stoppard but his three wives, three siblings, four children, and many others. Lee is also a sensitive critic, and she has a deft touch in noting when Stoppard’s work has fallen flat, as with his convoluted spy drama “Hapgood.”

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