Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planets connect with a dull thud in this rehash of an earlier science-fiction thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...
...fiction may be in the doldrums, but good novels continue to come out of postwar Italy. The latest, and one of the best, is The Brigand, a tragic story of an army veteran who tries to play Robin...
...enough to make a good novel, We Fished All Night might be a minor masterpiece. It has a few vivid mo ments: a comic meeting of ward heelers, a warm glimpse of a Polish family. But for the most part its political sermonizing stirs unhappy memories of the "proletarian fiction" of the 19305. In 560 closely printed pages, that is too much of a bad thing...
Henry Gauthier-Villars, known to all France at the turn of the century by his simple pseudonym, "Willy," was regarded as the most prolific hack-writer of his day. His admirers marveled that one man could produce such a torrent of puff-pastry fiction, dramatizations, music and theater criticism, and racy personal history. Actually, Willy did nothing of the sort. He employed hacks to do his hacking; he was squire of an estate of sharecropping "ghosts...
Today, 78-year-old Colette's innumerable admirers (most of whom would agree with Glenway Wescott that she is "the greatest living French fiction writer") wonder how on earth their "national great lady" ever bowed to such servitude. Colette herself, now a distinguished member of the French Academy, wonders too. True, she says, Willy actually kepi her under lock & key. But why did she not escape by the window? Was it because he always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy...