A Grad Student’s Delight

Interest in Barnes probably also stemsnfrom the fact that her novels aid shortnstories and plays consistently present anradically pessimistic, drearily deterministicnview of life that still squares nicelynwith the prevailing Zeitgeist. Accordingnto Barnes, man lives amid bewilderingnflux in a backwater constellation, in anninterminable limbo where there is neithernjoy nor light nor . . .