Cal

References:

  • On the author of The Virgin Suicides:
    “Eugenides’ [strength] is his prodigious grasp of history and ancestry as limitless fields that surround us and through which we travel, both forward and backward, toward our unknown destination.”
    — Review of Middlesex
  • On stories and life:
    “The story of Cal… the narrator and protagonist of Middlesex, suggests that while facts can tell us a great deal about life, they are never quite sufficient to the task.”
     — Review of Middlesex
  • On the film “East of Eden”:
    “East of Eden was in need of a Cal, and Elia Kazan, the director, found Cal in James Dean.”
    — The Life of James Dean