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"[S]ince it comes from Vonnegut, America's favorite grumpy old man, you've got to love him" (Thomas Disch, the Washington Post ).
In Newsweek , the usually grumpy Harold Bloom called it "charming"; Clemson University's James Andreas enthused, "Shakespeare was a pop phenomenon in his own age.
Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."
He didn't show up, but some of his "council" members did--they were gray, natty, and grumpy, like Baptist deacons.
I guess the lesson that is to be learned from the Times article you mention on Page A12 is that if you're going to get involved negotiating with Nazi-era slaves, you're just going to have to expect them to be a little grumpy and that is all there is to it.