In the title essay, she catalogues writers who lapsed into literary silence.
Part drawing, part painting, they were fast-brushed in sour, offbeat colors with uneven paint handling, scratchy sketching and intense backgrounds, as in his memorable view of Ludwig Ritter von Janikowski, a much-admired literary personage who had lapsed into mental illness.
During and after the Greek Civil War, he lapsed into literary silence for almost 15 years, returning to print in 1959 with To Axion Esti ("Worthy It Is"; Eng. trans. The Axion Esti), a long poem in which the speaker explores the essence of his being as well as the identity of his country and people.
His puckish air of belligerent naughtiness, indulged in the decades of the 50s, 60s and 70s, especially in such exuberantly rude forays into literary criticism as his Cambridge and Oxford lectures, lapsed into a sad inertness.
480 406 bce)—that the word they first used for their plays survived and came to describe a literary genre that, in spite of many transformations and lapses, has proved its viability through 25 centuries.
After "Window of Opportunity," Gingrich lapsed into a prolonged silence, at least as a literary man.
Despite Caragiale's relationships with women and his lapses into homphobia, Ion Vianu argues (partly building on similar comments made by literary historian Matei Călinescu) that the writer had a preference for homosociality or even homoeroticism, both in line with his narcissism.
Whether lapses like these — symptoms of a care-and-attention deficit that runs throughout the book — constitute a literary equivalent of this offense is open to debate.
Such lapses, however, should not distract attention from this precocious debut — they certainly will not stop this novel from becoming one of this summer's hot literary reads.
