Susan Eilenberg

Critics found this novel hard to handle; many were impressed by its undeniable brilliance, while puzzled as to its aims and methods. Oddly, a number of them stated that the story is told from the...

Eilenberg reads the early poems as manifestly designed by a young, impudent, absurdity-loving poet to puzzle her readers, and the mid-century poems as vivid pieces of wit, observation, meditation or fantasy, full of the freshness...

Ruth Scurr , reviewing this book for the Times Literary Supplement, detected in its first paragraph a flash of the steely impatience that MSdirects at flawed humanity. While most reviews were respectful,...

Ivy Compton-Burnett , who always disliked religious sentiment and religious writing, was severe on MS . She described her early novels as Not at all good. . . . I don't like novels that tell...

British Book News pronounced: There is much learning and profound thought in this slim volume. The review also sketched IM 's reasons for concentrating on Sartre's novels when his plays were at this...

This fiercely original work, IM 's best-known philosophical writing, was foundational in what has been called Virtue Ethics. Critic Susan Eilenberg notes that this and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals have been...

Susan Eilenberg writes that both whimsy and didacticism encroach during IM 's final decade as a novelist; yet these books include one or two outstanding ones.