Ellison’sInvisible Man, and Nabokov’sLolita.) And in an interview, Yardley calledAugie March“a fabulously rich, humorous, far-ranging book that tries what so few American books [do], which is to — in the Faulknerian phrase — take the universe and put it on the head of a pin.” ...
“The war against Russia (Hitler said) will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. All officers will have to did themselves of ...