Bloomsbury Recalled

"Now in his mid-80s, Mr. Bell evidently could not change the habits of a lifetime of literary self-effacement; he continues to feel comfortable in the position of the observer and uncomfortable as the observed...Mr. Bell is not entirely uncritical of his elders....But, significantly, Mr. Bell never complains about the adults vis-a-vis himself; he insists on his role of detached observer; he keeps his child's griefs to himself....With his characteristic modesty, he is content to offer a text that is a kind of extended footnote to the work of other chroniclers of Bloomsbury (including that of his younger self), correcting where he feels correction is required, clarifying, amplifying, modulating."Bell, Quentin is the author of 'Bloomsbury Recalled' with ISBN 9780231105651 and ISBN 0231105657.