Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telling the truth. The point of the story should really be that if only we had the right translator to strip away the petty ugliness that encrusts us, everyone would see the nobility that is really inside us. And this magical translator, of course, is he writer of fiction. Why, then, doesn't Oates translate for her characters? Why does she play the role of the second translator instead of the first? If only she felt compassion for her characters, sickness and mediocrity would be transformed into existential tragey. "The Translation" shows that Oates realizes how she is responsible...
...FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles∙Gnomes, Will Huygen and Rien Poortvliet∙The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth∙Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
...FICTION...
Character thus becomes the essential element in Kosinski's fiction. His characters live dramatically, moving in and out of events effortlessly, at times too effortlessly. Through George Levanter, the protagonist in Blind Date, Kosinski provides a vivid example of the "dramatic" lifestyle...
Austin-Healys and buxom blonde starlets do not impress John le Carre. The veteran British spy novelist writes fiction, not fantasy; the fast cars and bikini-clad counterspies that dominate the pleasantly foolish world of James Bond and Matt Helm have no-place in his books. To le Carre, the cloak-and-dagger game is really a business, and the men and women who work at it are hardly likely to decorate cinema marquees...