Book World; The Last Word on Dying Words From: The Washington Post | Date: December 23, 1992| Author: | Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

LAST WORDS

Variations on a Theme in Cultural History

By Karl S. Guthke

Princeton. 250 pp. $24.95

In fact and in fiction, last words resound in our collective memory. From the former: Goethe calling for "more light," Cecil Rhodes bemoaning "so little done, so much to do," Lytton Strachey complaining, "If this is dying, I don't think much of it." From the latter: Kurtz, in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," uttering "a cry that was no more than a breath: `The horror! The horror!' " and, in "Citizen Kane," the eponymous protagonist's plaintive call for his long-lost "Rosebud."

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