Brodkey's most striking characteristic is his passion for what I can only call protraction.
No doubt it is to these stories that Harold Brodkey owes his considerable reputation but there is in ''Stories in an Almost Classical Mode'' fiction that one can hardly imagineįinding in The New Yorker - stories important as evidence of the scope and nature of this writer's gifts, which are certainly remarkable, though often a cause of pain to the reader. They were written over the last 25 years, and mostly appeared in the admirably accommodating New Yorker Some of the stories in this huge book are short, some are long enough to be called novellas, but all are from the same intense and dedicated mind.
STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE By Harold Brodkey. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy FRANK KERMODE Frank Kermode is a literary critic whose most recent book is ''History and Value.'' September 18, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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