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From: Artforum
Date: 20030701
Author:Moody, Rick
Rick Moody on Nathaniel Hawthorne
TWENTY DAYS WITH JULIAN & LITTLE BUNNY BY PAPA
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, INTRODUCTION BY PAUL AUSTER
NEW YORK: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. 100 PAGES. $16.95.
If there's a problem with Nathaniel Hawthorne, it's the problem of allegory. For every Scarlet Letter or House of the Seven Gables where the author's psychological acuity and "humorous gravity" is foremost in the enterprise, there's a work-The Marble Faun, for example, or the later, unfinished Dolliver Romance-where reality feels layered over with simulation. This allegorical layering provides safe cover ...
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