Volume 7, Number 3 · September 8, 1966
To Tell You the Truth
By Robert Mazzocco
The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem
by Ned Rorem
Braziller, 256 pp., $5.95
The Diary of Anais Nin
by Anais Nin
Harcourt, Brace & World, 368 pp., $6.95
A Very Easy Death
by Simone de Beauvoir
Putnam, 128 pp., $3.95
Ours is an age of mirrors, Ephemeral, sophistic, isolated from each other, we nevertheless reflect each other, till 'mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show.' Athlete, statesman, actor, politician—rare indeed is the celebrity who would willingly forego appearing in print without his 'kink,' who does not present himself in strenuous pursuit of an 'image.' And rarer still the artist not speaking to us of the loss of self, or of the annihilation of self. Abstracted or narcissistic, seeking communion, we confess.
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