Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the most striking French fiction comes from precocious teenagers writing about teenagers. In Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year...
...world where Bobby Thompson always hits the long one, only to be called out for not touching third. Yet, literary or not, we liked O. Henry. Perhaps the same failings which kept him a mediocre artist gave him his appeal. His style was good journalism if poor fiction, and the oversimplified characters and twist endings made good copy...
College humor magazines are on the way out, prophesied the editor of the Princeton Tiger in a recent article. This month, without fanfare, the Lampoon proves he was right. The former funny magazine has switched, for the most part, to political articles and avant-garde fiction...
Although Hubbard's is the only piece of original journalism in the issue, the Lampoon has printed stories by two unique fiction writes. Good-bye Bellaphone by Douglas Bunce, for instance, is representative of the newest trend in short stories. It is confusing, obscure, and very difficult to finish. And the other story, The Great American Novel by John Train, is quite puzzling, although in this case there is enough fast-moving action to make the piece interesting on the first level...
Cathy was a vicious slut but Adam didn't know that. Steinbeck has made her a dish of distilled evil, one of the most implausible women in fiction's gallery. As a young, sweet-looking girl she had murdered her parents, burned the family home and skipped off to Boston. There she became the mistress of a man who ran a string of brothels, drove him mad with jealousy and was almost beaten to death by him. When she crawled...