Children of Light
Jones, Robert
manufacturing. Jobs, capital, and the Politician as a Young Ideologue." "the real star quest as far as I was con- production have been permanently Reading Reinhold...
...Isn't that laid his secrets and his life...
...Carre's real-life father, Ronald, a man ters between British and American intel- And when he casts his lot with both who can draw to himself so dedicated a ligence men, each lying through his British Jack Brotherhood and returned band of cronies that one of them will even teeth, members of the same "team" out Czech comrade, Axel, whom he once go to prison in his place...
...In the morning he'd be born David Cornwell...
...He becomes an expert at it and all agent, while he officially mounts the dip- the while he smiles most charmingly...
...Their vividness is been edged-out of the production, but it We are meant to be moved by Lu such that you forget you are reading a was to have been the achievement of his Anne's descent into madness, but Stone book and the narrative takes on the power career...
...This propensity to tell us ev- begun to hear voices and hallucinate fig- show...
...And Walker responds, her breakdown, Stone has lost the reader for Sunrise, enable Stone to measure his " `I would die for you.' It was true, he altogether...
...For the pres- cles the country's decay through the but let us watch and be sober...
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...Stockman refers to a "half-revolution" because he believes that the budget could have been brought into balance if The other side of soullessness his anti-statist libertarian philosophy had been put into effect to produce a "lean, CHILDREN OF LIGHT the historical difference of the last twenty stingy" government...
...Near the end of Children By the time Lu Anne begins her ascent the Vietnam and drug wars of Dog Sol- of Light, Lu Anne asks Walker, "Can't of Mount Carmel and the culmination of diers, and the guerrilla wars of A Flag you help me...
...hood and Magnus's wife, Mary, are club...
...And often age scene...
...Like betrayed, he is able to write quite sinimprobable or exotic Rick's next scheme cerely, "Axel was his keeper and his, will be, "the court," his loyal followers, virtue, he was the altar on which Pym had and a constantly changing cast of ''He's a searcher...
...He has never been more con- A Perfect Spy is what it does and does not very energetically . When his life vincing than he is here in showing us how tell us about David Cornwell himself, is happy he believes in God and Magnus, a brilliant young man, by this who was once in the British Foreign wants everyone to have a gift...
...The banner on around him...
...Even Children of asks in her poem...
...has played-out every possible hand, so ways involve brutality: for example, Gordon Walker's success is passed by his suicide seems the natural end of the Hicks's gratuitous murder of the drug the time we meet him in Children of game...
...these characters' dissolution...
...Smiley's People...
...their about insiders...
...June 24, Mt...
...The choices Stone must demonstrate how destruction Stone's intention in Children of Light is Stone gives Lu Anne are meaningless is a property of the self...
...And in drawing this parallel be- from having lost track of the hopes that true in the Smiley series of novels: tween Lu Anne's madness and the real were once thought possible...
...Everything is "literary" in the erything he learned in school mars all that ures she calls "the Long Friends...
...An individualized report will be generated for each workshop participant and presented to you at the time of the workshop...
...Huge, pro- (Knopf, 1981), and in his new novel, of the light, and the children of the day: longed deficits are an unreal problem to Children of Ligh,, he has given us a por- we are not of the night, nor of darkness...
...Magnus has done so He modestly demurred or modestly self from the memory of Ronald immediately on learning of his father's boasted...
...As exasperation for the author Through the characters in Children of that he has the power to unnerve every- grows, the characters become increasLight - a schizophrenic film star, a thing around him...
...come the part of Pym that was not owned Yet at the heart of the novel remains le we should nor ask, for more...
...Le Carre has steadfastly reThe Pert;-0 t 51 +errands on behalf of British intelligence, fused to be interviewed and the Lelyveld Commonweal: 308...
...Reagan appears in these pages as a symbolize for him the aimlessness that he Stone's obsession with the empty promman with a few stubbornly-held convic- perceives at the heart of American cul- ise each of us inherits emerges through tions and unaware of much that is going ture...
...it amounts to the same thing in the their madness and drug addiction are pre- lywood victims, but Stone lacks Didion's end...
...and rain, false stigmatas, and Lu Anne ricated conflict...
...Evil, a word atnovels...
...This is Czechoslovakian match him...
...Or else save me...
...seeks to personalize this "armed lessly analyze their feelings, but with no But this is how Stone attempts to add enemy" and show how we are dangerous sense of the world beyond themselves or depth to his narrative where he cannot and careless with each other...
...the real star quest as far as I was conproduction have been permanently Reading Reinhold Niebuhr, Stockman cerned was (Irving) Kristol...
...so we witness their inevitable decline tory in a few elliptical sentences, and Violence is the natural response to this without knowing how they came to be especially to convince us of their exhausshort-circuit of emotion, and the most where they are or caring how much tion...
...He meets Jude Reagan was one of the more unfortunate below the poverty line...
...He shares sinuates himself onto the movie set, "to "-'malheureuse" in her ear and remind with too many other novelists the cursed make my presence felt," he says...
...Walker has toys are broken...
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...Her But Stone's downfall as a writer is that job to occupy his days...
...This is because, as Axel, a man whom Magnus betrays out someone else...
...And so he wields But by the time Walter leaves for nations...
...wife, and with a drug habit instead of a of a Grand Guignol melodrama...
...and borrowed time...
...A Flag for Sunrise Thessalonians: "Ye are all the children alliance with the upper class...
...I read come in any political circle...
...as much a victim of the unassailable erans' benefits, and subsidies to farmers Robert Jones American ideal as the lands we have and businessmen...
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...Her suicide is as pointless as placed dreams and the despair that comes moral commitment...
...In Children of Light, tragic simultaneously, but it rarely die and swims out to sea, she turns to there are no land mines, crazed soldiers amounts to more than the worst kind of Walker with the words: "Come," she of fortune, or drug runners to threaten, so bogus existentialism...
...The more tangled and complex the charGenerations of intrigue acters' dilemmas become, the more le Carre is aware of all they are going through and the better he conveys it to us A PERFECT SPY and becomes the protege of a new father Very early on Magnus Pym learns to John le Carre figure, Jack Brotherhood, who will run lie and to "live on several levels at Knopf, $18.95, 475 pp...
...He finds himself deserted by his has written these episodes with the pitch of the best cinematic image...
...The figure characters never sleep, but then, most of read primarily for its gossipy revelations of the drifter, who, appears in different them are amphetamine freaks...
...His distance between himself and his past...
...The novel builds to than he was, and evil...
...He by anybody else...
...Flag for Sunrise...
...This was certainly her life...
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...At times their voices mimic the ideas about as if they were baseball bats Mexico, Lu Anne already has a loose chatter of Quaker maidens or sometimes in the hands of one of his more deranged grip on her chronic madness...
...Laffer, "a dazzling thinker...
...Stone's characters all ingly charmless...
...memorable scenes in Stone's novels al- further they have to fall...
...guises in each of his novels, has come to watchfulness is a drug-induced paranoia...
...The tax laws Wanniski "who reordered everything I events in recent political history...
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...He meets economist Arthur that no one recognizes that more clearly sumers were seriously weakened...
...We had prosperity of a says, "the scales fell from my eyes as I tol was a secular incarnation of the Lord sort - but it rested on easy money turned those pages...
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...When time well aware of his father's duplicities Service...
...We know on very nearly the thought the world of him, and a fascination and also its one weakness...
...At first page that Magnus has holed up in stern-jawed priestly pride on learntimes le Carri-Cornwell becomes so ob- what is for him a "safe house" on the ing that the Army loved him, too...
...It would have Robert Stone years is that we are now all part of this meant eliminating or drastically over- devastation...
...Sunrise, hast commands...
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...the pack of them to paid-up life little bored, a feeling that does not last We know how desperately Brother- membership in the Pym supporters long, however...
...to see what will happen...
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...one more of French nannies than hallucidesire to be significant...
...Austrian philosopher of the free market: Ideas are important and should be welI term this a "partial" indictment be- "I plunged into economics...
...depicts American power as an after- characters wait endlessly for something Nevertheless, his ideological hunger and tremor that devastates each foreign place to happen, but they haven't a clue as to his need to find a mentor are astonishing...
...Stone as seriously as he takes him- "Children of Light" as the epigraph to As long as the present prosperity, fake self...
...Amidst all that din, we Nothing makes a difference...
...most artificial sense...
...The entire novel is told in interesting when he heard that his tutors In this lies much of the novel's great contrasts...
...Emily Dickinson expressed no urgency...
...And ability to convey B.Z.'s and Maria's his- Stone wants to mirror our cultural Commonweal: 306 *$a 4004W *7WAl4&d 0 0 0 to participate in a workshop presented by Dr...
...we inhabit, while the country itself re- what they expect...
...I don't know what His book could be retitled, "Portrait of mains essentially unchanged...
...The race wars of A Hall of Mirrors, mediate action...
...Her one feel that this disintegration is happendren of Light...
...Walker can die with her or save characters' lives in their middle age, and Lays...
...The rewere also tilted to favor the rich, and had previously known or thought about deeming charm of Stockman's memoir is government regulations to protect con- economics...
...Stone dancing naked before clouds as purple as are less likely to notice the weakness of wants us to accept his vision as ironic and the prose...
...In removing the action acters, the longing to attach oneself to a tual enthusiasm...
...Spy is the first of le Cane's novels not life...
...Stone's Review, he said of the perpetual conflict again drawn to Walker's arms...
...But we enter his much like Joan Didion's in Play It As It ones...
...impossible, hence his title, "The O NE wants very much to take Robert Stone chose Robert Lowell's poem Triumph of Politics...
...In this eerie vision of exile, Stone soullessness is inevitable violence...
...No matter how to savage each other mercilessily...
...has been reported, one of the pivotal of a desire to court favor with Brother- Or, as Magnus Pym himself puts it in characters in the novel, Rick Pym, father hood...
...I'd try to the most personally to "John le Carre," ral spies...
...There is no naturalis good in Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Walker arrives just as she films the suici- ness to Stone's prose, nothing that makes Sunrise, but it cripples altogether Chil- dal swim that concludes the movie...
...For Stone, I'm doing or why I do it or what it's 23 May 1986: 305 like," Converse says in Dog Soldiers...
...quences become evident...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...
...He goes any sympathy the reader might feel for armed enemy present, not far away...
...Going to work for able a lover of ideas as Stockman into the stamps, Medicaid, and other social pro- John Anderson, "I became a kind of intellectual vacuum surrounding Ronald grams pushed several million persons adopted son to him...
...The scene is full of thunder characters' disaffection against a prefab- thought, but not really helpful...
...That proved politically failed to conquer...
...Its battles are played out on other In Stone's world, the other side of this money on Wall Street, puts some ironic shores...
...Magnus for years as a British secret once...
...As Joseph Lelyveld wrote in the he is down he will sulk and refuse to and his mother's descent into madness, New York Times Magazine, A Perfect go to church...
...In A Hall of Mirrors (Ballantine his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, and or real, continues to prevail, most of the Books, 1975), Dog Soldiers, (Houghton bas now returned to the image, from I middle class will maintain its political Mifflin, 1981...
...But years before, he wrote a believe Gordon and Lu Anne are wornDog Soldiers or the torture of Sister Jus- screen treatment for Kate Chopin's The out by life...
...This plea is somewhere Stockman's book can also be read as a Light, which is about Hollywood, takes in the minds of each of Stone's charcautionary tale on the dangers of intellec- place in Mexico...
...He had beenough...
...just as Central America is the heart of A thou a flag for me...
...Rick, that gentlemanly, genial searching for him, and here we are In short, he became indeed the perfect charmer is an ace con artist, as was le treated to a brilliant sequence of encoun- spy and his father's son...
...But in Children of Light, we never dealer with a needle through the vein in Light...
...Selectively, it is true...
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...They behave more like chiltin in A Flag for Sunrise...
...And when Lu Anne is ready to their motivation...
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...sessed with the catharsis of freeing him- remote Devon coast...
...He discovers the Himself...
...In Children of Light, Stone mini- her character in the movie, and her an- When Walker reflects upon Lu Anne's aturizes the metaphor of war that has ticipation of meeting Walker become un- madness, he thinks: "It was stronger been the foundation of his previous bearable pressures...
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...Carre"s brilliant evocation of the espion- spied...
...Skating on thin ice all the time, he submitted to the British Foreign Office John le Carte manages Oxford, some frightening small for vetting...
...Didion makes us believe that B.Z...
...They end- nothing to the story but pretentiousness...
...sented as if they were a natural state...
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...his first wife Belinda says of him to There is another father figure awaiting Brotherhood after his disappearance, C LEARLY, of all the eleven novels he Magnus in Bern, where he "was in Swit- "He was a new man every day...
...To me, Krislost...
...Attaching "false condrug-dependent screen writer, and other share the kind of self-absorption that is sciousness" to Walker's reflection adds types of Hollywood flotsam - Stone often mistaken for reflection...
...Each new generation born is hauling Social Security, Medicare, vet- Knopf, $17.95, 258 pp...
...most voters until their harmful conse- trait of post-sixties America that chroni- Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others...
...He paraded pleasurable surprise Ronald Cornwell...
...I emerged a dis- ducing so light-headed and impressionthe cutbacks in public service jobs, food ciple of F. A. Hayek...
...It is no coincidence that le Carte the "mea culpa" he is writing, speaking of the "Perfect Spy," Magnus Pym, is chose "Brotherhood" as a name for the about his Oxford days: closely modeled on his own father, top British manager of spies...
...In our profession 1 am sure "lovelies" will back him...
...Serene creates America at a distance...
...I think Robert called...
...and Suburbs Junfr 19, St Francis Retreat House (at Maryslake), Oak Brook, II...
...Stone's ent, therefore, the Stockman book will be voices of its burnt-out cases...
...habit of sneaking extraneous concepts that defines our lives: "It is the simple Walker does not go to Mexico to con- into his characters' minds undermines truth that, wherever you are, there is an sciously wreck the production...
...Those of us who run begins to charm his own way through him have to live with that...
...The Honourable Schoolboy...
...Washington wars gone off to make States...
...He knows only them...
...In describing his intel- of his novels from the land they address, common ground and be made to feel part lectual pilgrimage, Stockman, now at Stone captures the feeling of geographi- of a world that one has in no way been thirty-nine a battle-scarred veteran of the cal impunity that pervades the United equipped to see...
...But Perhaps the most tantalizing aspect of treasonably it is also true...
...And again, than the author himself...
...As Barbara A. Bannon lomatic ladder...
...This computerized instrument called the Hall-Tonna Inventory of Values assesses growth by measuring values on a developmental scale and raises discernment questions relative to the unique values of every person...
...And so he in- "Long Friends" whisper words like he is not content to stop there...
...increasing terror, her identification with ing to a human being...
...asked for no information...
...07430 1-201-825-7300 breakdown in Lu Anne's empty act, but insanity of the modern world, Stone Graham Greene, le Cane is a writer he doesn't persuade us that she has lost cheapens the tragedy of our own mis- whose characters can never totally evade anything...
...Vietnam is light," the fake illumination that reveals and passive, "he gave no orders, no the geographical center of Dog Soldiers, blindness instead of truth...
...She has sound like characters from a minstrel characters...
...He'd has written, this is the one that means zerland at last, the spiritual home of natu- come home as one person...
...of the responsibility that lies beyond im- create it with characterization or style...
...Reagan seemed as far What separates Robert Stone's vision we are meant to carry now brings with it, above the detail work . . . as a ceremo- from most other novelists is that he as Lowell says, "the Serpent's seeds of nial monarch is above politics...
...Moments like Awakening, and now it is being produced dren who play with drugs and each these are written with a heartlessness and in Mexico with his former lover, Lu other's emotions because all their other clarity that are like nothing else in con- Anne Bourgeois, as its star...
...Alverno Conference and Retreat Center, Redwood City, Ca...
...He weeded out the halfCornwell, and how it has haunted him, death, abandoning wife, teen-age son, believers from the believers and that he goes on too long about "Rick," everyone, while he sets down in writing did not rest until he had converted and we begin to feel ourselves almost a the "mea culpa" of his entire life...
...In a recent interview in The Paris Lu Anne's breakdown as she is once taching to false consciousness...
Vol. 113 • May 1986 • No. 10
