James Wood
speaker
815 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Wood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then we go from there right to the concrete and local.
The old man was sprinkling sugar on his strawberries.
Small hoops of brilliance were cast by the water glasses on the white tablecloth.
It was early summer, and the long window was turned inward, so we go out to the window again, but then we zoom in.
A moth was on the pane, the putty was broken, and the white enamel on the frames was streaming with wrinkles."
If we had Flaubert right here and we showed him that passage from Bellow, he would instantly recognize a familiarity, I believe, with his own style.
It's a novel of sensationally good details.
Once Tommy sits down to have breakfast with his father, he peels a boiled egg, and Dr. Adler can't help noticing that his sort of dirty, unhygienic behavior
son leaves with his fingers a faint grime on the white of the egg dr adler by contrast to tommy's sloppiness is beautifully seen in his precision how about these two phrases this is dr adler his small breast rose sharply under the red and black shirt
Now, that doesn't look like very much when I put it like that, but just hear that again.
His small breast rose sharply under the red and black shirt.
With bellow, you always want to attend to every single word in the sentence because it's an all-purpose, a brilliantly all-purpose style.
Small breast rose sharply, that wonderful adverb there, under the red and black shirt.
It's like a little, it's like a perfect little bird, isn't it?
Some sort of red robin breast moving under the shirt.
Of Dr. Adler, we're told, the wrinkles beside his ears were deep because the skin conformed so tightly to his bones.
So there's the roving cinematic novelist who wants to give us this physiognomic exactitude about Dr. Adler.
And his eye, Bella's eye, this sensational, unsurpassed eye...
roams around and finds just behind the ears of all places, the place to, the location to do a bit of physiognomic reading.
The wrinkles beside his ears were deep because the skin conformed so tightly to his bones.
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