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The style is still as cool and clean and unobtrusive as a good maid, which is just what it should be.

…situations of of dependency and emergence, of servitude and revolt, are of the utmost consequence in Naipaul’s work; they are both literal and distinctly metaphoric…

…Isherwood uses the materials of journalism to fashion what is always beyond the reach of journalism—an account of essential and representative current experience, felt as direct confrontation and emerging as literature.

The position in which [Isherwood] found himself while working on the movie Prater Violet, exemplifies his general position in life: he knows better, and yet he is involved.