DeWitt's characters, being able to read that word in Greek or elaborately analyze its derivation. It is possible to recognize the hubris here without, like Ms. (.) (A) sprawling, aggressively showy book with flashes of genius to keep it soaring. DeWitt joins Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon in going to the head of this year's class of flamboyantly ambitious novelists whose adventurousness spins out on an epic scale. "In an exhilaratingly literate and playful first novel punctuated by divine feats of intellectual gamesmanship, Ms.
But if Sibylla’s delivery is, for all the intellectually rarefied subject matter, curiously flat and sometimes a bit too adorable - it’s as if Glenn Gould were being channeled by Bridget Jones - the two-dimensionality, the lack of psychological texture or the sense of a coherent subject behind the brilliant word-spinning do successfully convey the extent of Sibylla’s dilemma." - Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books A potential criticism of DeWitt’s style is that it lacks texture, consisting as it does of lists and enumerations of thoughts and insights particularly in the first two hundred pages, there are times when you feel less as if you’re reading a novel than sitting next to a brilliant crank at a departmental social event. The point of the demanding first part of The Last Samurai is that forging a whole is something that Sibylla herself is unable to do.
However, she distances the reader with lengthy asides (not to mention passages in Greek and Japanese), seeming more interested in her writerly preoccupations than in allowing Ludo to become the hero of his own highly original story." - Lisa Darnell, The Guardian
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