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The Final Curtain

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041107
Author:Reviewed by Christopher Hitchens

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By David Lodge. Viking. 390 pp. $24.95

At the close of a sterile negotiation with Sam Goldwyn over a possible screenplay, George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have told the movie mogul that he finally understood their aesthetic differences: "You, sir, are interested principally in art. I am interested only in money."

Many literary authors have tried to make this Faustian bargain with the Mammon faction, imagining that one good killing at the Hollywood or Broadway box office will free them to produce their principled, deathless, elevated prose. Faulkner, Greene, Waugh . . . the ...

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