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Yasunari Kawabata is probably best known in the West for his novels Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959). Which is to say that this most Japanese of Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued in Japanese for those qualities that are most difficult to render in trans lation: precision and delicacy of image, the shimmer of haiku, an allusive sad ness and minute sense of the impermanence of things...
...Essay section, "and the coins would generally clatter to the floor, to my embarrassment. As a magician, I had ten things working against me-my fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs, a few off-Broadway shows. In 1966 he joined TIME as a writer for the Show Business section before turning movie critic and essayist. This week he was back at his old haunt for our story on the renaissance of magic. Over the years, Kanfer has worked on enlarging...
...first-rate translations of his books, since each succeeding volume (Gulag will be no exception) stirs more than the usual storm about inaccuracies and betrayal of spirit that mars most translations. More important, one will have to see completed the already vast and elaborate mixture of fact and fiction through which he is attempting to restore to his countrymen the history of Russia since 1914. Solzhenitsyn is also clearly working on the creation of a rich, interlocking literary world that will revive a 19th century conception of man, shorn of his fond hopes for progress, but still a creature endowed...
...synthesize for the first time a portion of a mammalian gene, thus bringing closer the prospect of genetic engineering and control over life. Fearful about what that might mean, the M.l.T.-educated Baltimore is now spearheading efforts to protect the public from "bio-hazards." "Science-fiction fantasies may come true very soon, and we should be prepared," he warns...
...work with Playboy entails examination of fiction, interviews and pictures. Of all the magazines he examined, Gay said he found Playboy to present an unusually strong correlation among its different departments in their portrayals of social values. He gave as an example the inclusion of a fiction story concerning life in the ghetto with an interview with Eldridge Cleaver