Abstract
Every protagonist in Jhabvala’s fiction has been ‘in search of love and beauty’. Her Western women in India particularly are so committed to this search that they willingly leave home, country and family, all that they know, to embark on it, feeling that their drab lives lack even possibilities for search or discovery. This novel, whose slightly ironic title contains the essential Jhabvala theme, examines the effects of this search on a group of German and Austrian refugees in New York, and two generations of their descendents.
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V. S. Pritchett, ‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’, in The Tale-Bearers: Literary Essays (New York: Random House, 1980).
Bruce Davidson (director), Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs Pupko’s Beard, with Isaac Bashevis Singer (New Yorker Films, 1974).
John Pym, The Wandering Company: Twenty-one Years of Merchant-Ivory Films (London: British Film Institute, 1983; New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1983) p. 50.
John Pym, ‘Where Could I Meet Other Screenwriters?’, interview in Sight and Sound (Winter, 1978–9) pp. 15–18.
Bernard Weinraub, ‘The Artistry of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’, New York Times Magazine, 11 September 1983, p. 112.
Renée Winegarten, ‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Jewish Passage to India’, Midstream: A Monthly Jewish Review, March 1974, pp. 72–9; p. 79.
Michiko Kakutani, review of In Search of Love and Beauty, in the New York Times, 19 July 1983, sect. 3, p. 14.
Pietr Demianovitch Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Elements of an Unknown Teaching (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949).
See Jeffrey Meyers, Katherine Mansfield: A Biography (New York: New Directions Books, 1980) pp. 238–52,
John Updike, New Yorker, 5 July 1983;
Robert Towers, New York Times Book Review, 12 June 1983.
Quoted in J. G. Robertson, The Life and Work of Goethe (London, 1932) p. 182.
Humphry Trevelyan, Goethe and the Greeks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967) p. 205.
Pietro Citati, Goethe, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Dial Press, 1974) p. 32.
The title of this story alludes to a memoir by Jan and Rumer Godden, Two Under the Indian Sun (New York: Knopf, 1967).
See F. S. Perls, In and Out of the Garbage Pail (Lafayette, Cal.: Real People, 1969).
Woody Allen, Interiors (United Artists, 1978).
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Sucher, L. (1989). In Search of Love and Beauty. In: The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20239-3_9
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