Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these richer things is the chance to delve into other kinds of writing. This year as a Nieman fellow, she will have the opportunity to begin work in fiction, both on her own and as a course for credit. Scarf says she would like to write a novel, but that she doesn't know if she can "sustain herself in the unknown for the two years it would take to write the novel...
DuChamp realized half a century earlier that an authentic aesthetic response is weak and powerless in the face of the pressure of public opinion. To most of us, an authentic aesthetic response is that ineffable "gut feeling," which in this age of narcissistic fiction, is resurrected to onanistic worship. But a gut feeling, exactly because its vague origin, which is so often confused with mystic truthfulness, is associational in its logic. The shudder of revulsion that comes when viewing a Lichtenstein is probably not an artistic response, but an externally motivated one, prompted by the antibourgeois biases of contemporary culture...
...even without cohesive drama or great characters, Beyond the Bedroom Wall demonstrates a fine talent for description, coupled with a Proustian ability to re-create the past. Much of Woiwode's fiction seems knit from the strands of his own life. Like the fourth generation of Neumiller children, the Manhattan-based Woiwode was born in North Dakota and spent part of his childhood in rural Illinois. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1964, he began selling articles and short stories to magazines. His first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think...
...person, as when he eavesdrops on a mistress describing him to someone else; on those occasions it is as if a bit of recognizable reality has accidentally made its way into Tarden's nightmarish, monomaniacal descriptions of torture and death. There is no question but that Kosinski is a fiction writer of considerable craft, as well as imagination. These few breaths of conventionality--one person saying that women make Tarden feel inferior, another simply that he has bony features--show the limitations of Tarden's vision, and simultaneously cast doubt...
...amazingly, boringly secure in a world in which they have no historical place. No Irish, as has often been pointed out during the past few weeks, lived on Beacon Hill in the 1920's. Any Irishman who would dare to move there, even in a piece of fiction, must have some distinct goal in mind, some all-encompassing ambition that would overcome the unspoken but still strict social rules of the time, and of our time...