Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett completed this terse comic novel (in French) in 1946, then shelved it, perhaps because it retained too much luggage from traditional fiction: plot, ambulatory characters, glimmers of recognizable settings and human haunts. In Waiting for Godot, which he wrote soon after, Beckett said good riddance to such trappings and began the task that has occupied him ever since: willfully writing himself into a corner where there is only room enough for the mind to contemplate itself. He is the king of solipsists...
About Heroes. One fiction that the show destroys is the lingering idea that revolutions in politics produce revolutionary art styles. The notion that the events of 1789 filled the Salon with blood, grapeshot and equality is a myth. As the catalogue reminds us, "It is generally agreed that the Revolution did not seriously affect the development of French painting." Thus when it came, the successful portraitists-most of whom, like the gifted Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, were women-simply turned from painting the court to recording the features of eminences like Robespierre and Talleyrand...
...popular rival is Marabel Morgan, 37, of Miami, a housewife and mother of two. Morgan's book, The Total Woman, released quietly in late 1973 by Fleming H. Revell, an obscure New Jersey publisher, sold 370,000 copies at $5.95 to become the nation's top non-fiction bestseller in 1974. (It was missing from most bestseller lists because it was sold mainly in small-town shops and bookstores unpolled by the list makers...
...traditionally renowned for unusual brilliance in this respect, achieve more than just competence. Lindsay Davis makes a fine Colleen Allcars, Mark Kiely is impressively diabolical as the evil earl and Jonathan Emerson as his equality villainous accomplice ("efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love for Three Oranges. Best of all, I think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen, a well-meaning though not very intelligent Edith Bunker of a monarch who wants to turn back from her escape because...
...born preacher. Marshfield comes to his writing role out there in the desert as an amateur, but with the sensibilities of someone who has been working with words for a long time. It doesn't take him long, telling his own story, to discover the joys of writing fiction...