good benitoの例文
- "Good Benito " tells the story of a young physicist named Bennett Lang.
- Bennett Lang, the title character in Alan Lightman's " Good Benito, " is that kid.
- "Good Benito " ( Pantheon, 215 pages, $ 21 . ) is a very strange work.
- That is emphatically the case with " Good Benito, " the second novel by MIT physicist Alan Lightman.
- In " Good Benito, " a more conventional novel, there is action, but none of it is explicitly connected.
- But if " Good Benito " is not, in the end, an entirely successful work, its very failure is tantalizing.
- But every time the two boys got to the lake, John would challenge him again : Hey, Good Benito, let's race.
- "Hey, Good Benito, let's race, John would say and leap into the lake, flailing his arms and sticking out his white, sunken chest.
- Like most of the loosely connected episodes that make up " Good Benito, " it is a wonderfully uncanny story, told in elegantly understated prose.
- Charmingly spare, suffused with a kind of tranquil melancholy, " Good Benito " succeeds in capturing something rare and almost ineffable : the quality of innocence.
- "Good Benito " wanders along like a pleasantly aimless little cloud, a dreamy series of telling, sharply drawn episodes from the life of a wise naif.
- The interface between the hard, cold, logical world of physics and the fuzzy, unpredictable realm of human emotions is also the subject of Lightman's latest novel, " Good Benito ."
- John hangs the nickname " Good Benito " on his friend; and it is John's self-effacing sense of good fellowship that the nickname evokes, years after the young men lose touch:
- Five years in the making, " The Diagnosis " is thicker and more ambitious than the shorter works like " Einstein's Dreams " and " Good Benito " that secured his reputation as in imaginative and original writer.
- For Alan Lightman _ a physicist ( who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) and novelist ( " Einstein's Dreams " and " Good Benito " ) _ the distinction between science and art is sharp.
- "Einstein's Dreams " was an imaginative meditation on dreams that might have inspired Einstein's theory of relativity, and " Good Benito " was the story of an awkward boy who finds comfort in physics as a child but gradually grows into a fuller humanity.
- Compared with the ideas in " Einstein's Dreams, " the ones in " Good Benito " are not terribly new or surprising : we don't need allusions to " Frankenstein " to be reminded of the perils of scientific hubris, nor do we need asides about the atomic bomb and bomb shelters to be reminded of the consequences of technological progress.