Exhibitions 2 Little big man Joan Miró La Naissance du Monde Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, until 28 June The big crowd-puller in Paris right now is the Centre Pompidou's exhibition devoted to Joan Miró (1893-1983)....

MIKE KELLY The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-29-1994 LITTLE BIG MAN By MIKE KELLY Date: 05-29-1994, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Sometimes politicians reveal themselves in ways that are so odd that you have to wonder what...

[Little Big Man] is a most American novel. Not just in its subject, its setting, its story (these are common matters), but in its thematic structures, in its dialectic: savagery and civilization, indeed, but also the virgin land and the city, nature and the machine, individualism and community, democracy and hierarchy, innocence and knowledge, all the divisive and unifying themes of the American experience, or, more precisely, of the American "myth." In other words, Berger's novel is an...

It is satire and incongruity which strike the reader about [Little Big Man] especially because both are so seldom used as important style devices in western writing. Berger has Jack Crabb tell (into a tape recorder when he is over 100) what happened to him from 1852 to 1876. (p. 286) [The] picaresque pattern of the first half of the novel, is sometimes too involved and too fragmentary…. [Crabb] is a bounder, gold miner, gambler, gun-slinger, speculator, sharper, laborer, teamster, buffalo hunter, and...