The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. View an alternate. | Is That His Brother or Something? 169-174. ? And while Jeffrey Eugenides and his narrators are probably as far from being the young man carbuncular as can be imagined, I don’t think the idea of the author of a book as a person who is in the room with a reader, for as long as the book’s being read, is a bad one. This is only a preview. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. His pocket is full of currants. Journal of Modern Literature I thought it would be interesting to write about, but first I wanted to see what else the author wrote. To access this article, please, Access everything in the JPASS collection, Download up to 10 article PDFs to save and keep, Download up to 120 article PDFs to save and keep. Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants (209-210) Eliot's connection of physical and moral ugliness reaches almost racist proportions in his description of the "Unshaven" merchant from Turkey. I’m about halfway through it, but I put it down to finish the “project.”. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. We publish books and journals that will matter 20 or even a hundred years from now – titles that make a difference today and will live on into the future through their reverberations in the minds of teachers and writers. © 1989 Indiana University Press Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant' - YouTube URLs automatically linked. In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape routes from hell. The more I read it (and it took me a long time, since I could only read at most a chapter or two a day, which can’t have helped), the more I felt that (to paraphrase Wayne Booth) the implied author of this novel was someone I really did not want to spend time with. Posted at 09:45 PM in Books, Literature, Science Fiction | Permalink. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. « Re-reading Madeleine L'Engle | These are the product of the Wasteland – from the infertile land of the Fisher King. In the reading, this card represents obstacles that going against the viewer. The title of the post is from the same poem, and does almost seem appropriate (surely goatees are over by now). She can sometimes be a little too abstract for my taste when she is narrating ordinary stories, but so far the pieces in this book are brief explorations of related ideas, for which her ability to describe people and places with pinpoint accuracy is very well suited. He is probably the one-eye merchant in Madame Sosostris’s Tarot cards reading (chapter 1). Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. option. Mr. Eugenides is a Smyrna merchant. Login via your I like this passage, from the introductory story: On the airplane, everyone is locked into a seat with a belt and can move only during very short periods when they are allowed to stand in line waiting to empty their bladders until, just before they reach the toilet cubicle, a nagging loudspeaker harries them back to belted immobility. His pocket is full of currants. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.). . Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant; Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot is not the topic of this blog post. I did start The Marriage Plot during a break in my reading when I couldn’t get the book I needed next from the library, and I wanted something new to read during an afternoon sick in bed. Indiana University Press was founded in 1950 and is today recognized internationally as a leading academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. Having trouble reading this image? Is That His Brother or Something? (Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson) », I Don't Know How She Does It, a novel by Allison Pearson. Access supplemental materials and multimedia. So when I finished, finally, the thought that passed through my head was, “I’m glad that’s over.” That reminded me of the lines from T.S. Error type: Your comment has been saved. T.S. The passage is a good example of how Le Guin combines fiction that’s very interested in ideas with very precise, nearly pictorial descriptions. His pocket is full of currants. ©2000-2020 ITHAKA. With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. It turned out that while the first book was interesting (and brief), and the second was long and in a genre that was really not my kind of thing but a good read, the third was simply long. Select a purchase Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant,' and Post-War Politics in The Waste Land," journal of Modern Literature XV:1 (Summer, 1989), pp. Evan Jones - 'Mr. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Purchase this issue for $20.00 USD. The fact that the merchant’s pocket full of this product foreshadowing a dark future. Your comment could not be posted. . This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them. Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers. The idea of an author being a seducer, much less a rapist, maybe not, though. Eliot (in the third section of “The Waste Land,” which he gave the title, “The Fire Sermon"): She turns and looks a moment in the glass, Hardly aware of her departed lover; Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: "Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.". In the reading, this card represents obstacles that going against the viewer. My having finished the reading for the project I mentioned a little while back is. David Roessel, "'Mr. International in its scope its contributors include scholars from Australia, England, France, Italy, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Spain. Currants are small, seedless and dried grape. The Press also features an extensive regional publishing program under its Quarry Books imprint. 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