Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall issue of Mosaic is, as usual, a heteregeneous little magazine, inlaid with essays, fiction, poetry, and appropriate illustrations. The issue is unified only by its contributors concern with the past, an interest which ranges from glimpses of primitive culture to the fictional re-creation of the personal past...
...Bernays similarly have attempted to find some sequence of events in their pasts, which help clarify their present attitudes and feelings. Kroch and Aufhauser have observed the conflicts between a traditional way of life and the demands of modernity. Russo and Hamburg have prssented fragments of the past in fiction and poetry. Mosaic does not try to put together the puzzle of the past; it successfully attempts to put a few more pieces in place...
Force & Style. The Europeans in the collection seem most successful when they are least experimental and stay close to the traditional fixture of fiction -the sense of time and region. In Albert Camus' The Renegade, his great moral force triumphs over impressionistic style. But Stories and Texts for Nothing, III, Samuel Beckett's abstract exercise in vocalized nihilism, is a dud. So also is Secret Room, by France's modish Alain Robbe-Grillet, a montage of quasi-photographic fragments that is merely abstract and fatally a bore...
...this anthology demonstrates one thing, it is that experiment in style has come to an end. Fiction, despite many premature critical obituaries, did not die with the avantgarde...
...life and should be nicer reading, but it is not. It is even more painful, coming as it does, closer to the heart of Céline's anguished theme: innocence violated by life. It is the story of one of the most desolate boyhoods in all fiction. The key incident comes at the end of Ferdinand's stay at an English school to which his parents had sent him. He brutally seduces the only person who had shown him affection-Nora, the headmaster's wife-and records her suicide by drowning in the Medway. During...