Word: fictional
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...2666” was not a great work or that I feel it shouldn’t have won. In fact, though I have to admit I haven’t finished it, I have a hard time believing that there could be another piece of fiction from 2008 that is more ambitious, more expansive, more powerful than Bolaño’s book—that there is any other book more deserving. Rather, the problems that I see all stem from that simple piece of common knowledge: Bolaño is dead. When the award was presented...
...we’ve concocted a fiction, and its nothing to me, really, you know how I feel about these biddies meddling and gossiping and trying to control people’s lives—what I mean is, I’m telling people you’re the new housekeeper,” is how Frank Lloyd Wright introduces his latest mistress Olgivanna Miljanova to his estate Taliesin. He seems to expect that she will accept her new title without protest or even remark. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she does. Such is the charismatic power and authority with which...
...expression. I think it is even the art of today.” Varda’s first feature film, “La pointe courte” (1954), stars local fishermen and their families as themselves, a technique she often uses in her work, which blends documentary and fiction. One of her most celebrated films, “Sans toit ni loi” (“Vagabond”), tells the story of a young wandering girl, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), as she marches toward her inevitable death. In preparation for the film, Varda became a vagabond herself, wandering...
Kathleen E. Hale ’09 won the Louis Begley Prize for Fiction for her short story about a young girl who channels her fear about her mother’s cancer diagnosis into an obsession with “bloodthirsty” and “scary” animals. The $1000 prize—which was established in 2000 in honor of former Harvard Advocate editor and contributor Louis Begley ’54—is awarded by the Advocate’s Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published...
...where near there yet.”Though her summer experience taught her that she does not, in fact, want to be an illustrator—she fears she lacks the technical skills required of such artists—Kaplan says that she plans to continue fiction writing, focusing on children’s literature. This summer, she will be teaching at an elementary school in New Orleans.“TOO EARLY TO TELL”Daniel R. Pecci ’09, one of last year’s ADF recipients and three students who served...