Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fiction within fiction is an old form, predating Chaucer, Boccaccio and perhaps even Scheherazade, who provided the first law of storytelling: enchant or perish. Author Wain seems familiar with the rewards and risks of laminating two tales. Wain may not achieve the iridescences of Vladimir Nabokov, modern master of the technique, but he moves from one story to the other without draining color from either. One reason is Giles' ability to regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story...
...FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Fielder's Choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman ∙ Good as Gold, Joseph Heller ∙ SS-GB, Len Deighton ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass
...students will work as volunteers for alumnae in professions ranging from anaesthesiology in Vermont to fiction writing in Ireland, Jamie Murray, staff assistant at the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday...
...pictures. Assault on Precinct 13 is the most solidly worked out and the most satisfying. Ignored as an exploitation film upon its initial release in 1976, it is Carpenter's second feature (his first was a science-fiction spoof expanded from a film school project, called Dark Star.) The basic situation and central characters, actors' mannerisms and shards of dialogue are derived from Rio Bravo, a late Howard Hawks film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult...
...fiction reflects the many years of silence in which she considered every aspect of her words. The day to day worries and the routine chores which constitute the basis for so many lives are explored with clarity and precision. Her stories are precise and read like poetry; not a moment, not a character, not an action is out of place. She does not need to add fictional action of events, she merely orchestrates the feelings and experiences of everyday life which we usually see and then forget...