Word: allegorist
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...plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor Moriarty on Friedrich Nietzsche -not because the philosopher was a criminal but because Doyle's Vic torian conservativeness was offended by Nietzsche's ideas about Ubermenschen who were beyond good and evil...
...Life, by Bernard Malamud. The author, known as a skilled allegorist for his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), is less successful as a writer of realistic fiction, but this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
...Miller-Atheneum ($4.50). Somewhere, some time, in southeastern Europe, the remnants of a beaten army shuffle into the city of Drohitz there to regroup before facing an unidentified enemy once more. These are the same weary, mud-stained troops who fought a hopeless battle for a useless hill in Allegorist Fü;p-Miller's The Night of Time, May 9, 1955); and to them Drohitz is something more than a well-fed peasant town. It is the focus of their tront-lme dreams, a city of dazzling peacetime riches, of sunny, soft-bodied girls strolling along...