Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life in Russia in 1948 and its concentric circles of hell expanding out from Stalin, who has never been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event...
...prison themes that were presented with piercing simplicity in One Day here return with a sweep that the author himself has described as polyphonic. It is in its references to the labor camps, "the Auschwitzes without ovens" as Dissenter
...retired Marine colonel, says that the theses also bear strange similarities to an official 1934 Marine Corps report and a 1939 Marine history of the American intervention. In 1955, when the Naval Institute published McCrocklin's dissertation as a book, it listed him as "compiler" rather than author. In Who's Who in America, however, McCrocklin credited himself as author. Often mentioned as a candidate for the presidency of the University of Texas when L.B.J. begins teaching there next year, McCrocklin has been more bashful since the Observer broke the story. He has declined all comment...
Then there is Autobiography, which is meant for monophonic tape and a "visible but silent author." Menelaiad, on the other hand, "depends for clarity on the reader's eye and may be said to have been composed for 'printed voice,' " which may or may not mean that it is to be read aloud-silently...
...antiquated piece of equipment in a mixed-media production, gets only the book. Barth says he originally planned to insert audio tapes in a number of hollowed-out pages, but dropped the idea as too gimmicky. There was no mention of providing each reader with a visible but silent author. Thanks mainly to Barth's enormous vitality and virtuosity, however, most of the pieces do quite well in print. Basically, Barth is firmly fixed in the Gutenberg galaxy...