Quin, Ann | Quin, Ann 1936–1973
Quin, Ann 1936–1973
Ms Quin was a British novelist. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 45-48.)
There is action in Berg, but it is a farrago, a quintessence of Calderism. 'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father …' runs an introductory page. The headlong prose, the ending-at-the-beginning, the whole arch apparatus of the over-serious, derives, one supposes, from Beckett et al. The insubstantiality and wordy portentousness are the writer's own. (p. 48)
John Fuller, in New Statesman (© 1965 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), January 8, 1965.
If [Berg] were as repellent as Miss Quin tries so hard to make it, it might be something to worry about, or at least to notice. But the deliberation with which she makes every wall, every ceiling, every flagstone cracked,...
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