Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm he started seven years ago, does incredibly complex recreations of such historical battles as Waterloo, Agincourt, Gettysburg, and sells them at the rate of about $2 million worth a year. Avalon Hill Game Co., the other big manufacturer, markets such simulations as Starship Troopers, a science-fiction game, and the complex tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have not yet happened: the one between the Soviets and the Chinese, the Canadian civil war, the invasion of America. The Pentagon buys Dunnigan's games, he says (and presumably plays with his maps...
...world goes on faster and faster; the camera furnishes us with our prototypes. "Instead of just recording reality," Sontag argues, "photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism." Nevertheless, the photo is a fiction: reality unfolds in time, and photographs do not. "Through photographs," Sontag writes, "the world becomes a series of unrelated, freestanding particles ... It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness, continuity, but which confers on each moment the character of a mystery." Photography isolates: it cannot narrate. "Strictly speaking, one never...
...long as one cares to remember, journalism and sociology have been the novel's boorish guests, wolfing down plots, ideologies and still smoking events in the name of fiction, although not necessarily in its spirit. Yet the novel tolerates nearly everything except a lack of persuasive characters...
...title atmospherically refers to Blues Singer Billie Holiday. The book spans roughly 20 years: from the '50s, when an author's "sensibility" was all, to the '60s and '70s, when private ironies and quiet implosions of emotion gave way to a journalistic relevance. In current fiction that usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable guilt, the death of God. They certainly never ponder...
...FICTION: Blind Date, Jerzy Kosinski...