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'Mysteries of Paris': postmodernism parodied?
2001
Overview
\"Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton,\" by Marion Mainwaring. University Press of New England. 327 pages. $30. Mainwaring, who completed [Edith Wharton]'s unfinished novel \"The Buccaneers,\" in 1993, evidently found this book hard slogging. She tells of years spent in a frustrating, circular and maddeningly speculative struggle to pin down the facts of Fullerton's life. Mainwaring's work is not compelling biography. She lays out Fullerton's most obvious characteristics -- self-aggrandizer, mooch and womanizer. But she does not bring his character to life, nor explain why such a cad inspired Wharton's passion and [Henry James]' enduring loyalty. The book is peopled by the intellectual and economic elite of three nations, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the Nazi occupation of Paris. But it offers few new insights into the class and the era.
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Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
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