Word: ans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUST what are the three books that the minister and his flock have found so satanic and obscene? The first one is Hermann Hesse's Demian, first published in 1919. Hesse happens to be one of the titans of modern literature, and his fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in...
The work is beautifully written, and is generally recognized as a masterpiece. As another Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann, wrote: "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ... is unforgetable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and...
The second offender is the 1965 novel The Emperor of Ice-Cream, by Brian Moore, an Irish-born writer now in his forties and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Governor General of Canada's Award for Fiction, and...
Exhibit number three is Daniel Keves' 1966 novel, Flowers for Algernon. Keyes holds two degrees, has taught high-school and college English, and is now, at 42, lecturer in English at Ohio University. In its original shorter form. Flowers for Algernon won the Hugo Award as the best science novelette...
Keyes' fantasy, only slightly improbable, explores the effects of a brain operation that turns a 32-year-old moron into an intellectual genius, but one still plagued by psychic traumas inflicted in childhood. Cast in the form of the protagonist's diary entries, his is one of the most extraordinary...