Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women differ from those of men. The idea of specific masculine and feminine reactions to pain or work or sex has been used over and over again to show how women are weaker or stupider or basically inferior to men. For example, for two hundred years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled chintz...
...evidence that fiction told from a woman's point of view deserves the same accord as that told from a man's must come from women writers themselves. And, again, it does. The snide comment quoted above on the "feminine prose manner" comes from the inane anonymous introduction to a newly-reprinted collection of short stories by Tess Slesinger. The stories themselves, originally published during the thirties, stand in beautiful repudiation...
Updike is too talented to write un distinguished fiction, and A Month of Sundays contains more than its share of finely wrought apercus: "In the end, fashion overcomes personality: all the mistresses of Louis XV look alike...
...impression that they are catering a novel rather than composing one. There are exceptions. Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges, for example, builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
...FICTION 1 -Centennial, Michener (2 lastweek) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (1) 3-Something Happened, Heller (3) 4-The Ebony Tower, Fowles (6) 5-Lady, Tryon (4) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...