Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Màrquez ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke The World According to Garp, John Irving
...more than two decades, Albert Camus had been the lyricist of the absurd, a condition, he wrote, "born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." To fill that silence, he wrote essays and fiction that have become part of the century's testament. His climb from obscurity was rapid: the poor North African upbringing was obscured by the Parisian celebrity...
...view tends to blur more than it clarifies. "English settlement ... came somewhat later than depicted," says an exasperating prefatory note to Chesapeake, which also mentions that Steed and Turlock are invented names, "but it did occur at a spot only 23 miles to the north." Fiction with heavy doses of reality and reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall bestseller lists and the winter...
...FICTION...
...complains about the cold passion for explanations: "Who says that everything nature or human nature does can be expressed in motives and words? I had been aware for a long time that literature could only describe facts or let the characters invent excuses for their acts. All motivations in fiction are either obvious or false...