Passacaglia

Passacaglia, in part because it is shorter, is a more intense, sombre and moving work than "The Libera Me Domine" ... Unlike Beckett he (Pinget) has not turned his back on the seethe of circumstance ...Pinget strikes us as free of any basically distorting mannerism or aesthetic pose. His recourse remains to the real, without irony....he manifests the two essential passions of a maker-- a love of his material and a belief in his method. -- John Updike, The New Yorker