Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convention-Eve Scramble. On convention eve, Averell Harriman declared a "free and open convention," added (with complete truth): "It is a fiction that I am going to dominate the convention." At the same time, realizing that De Sapio & Co. could not be persuaded to accept Finletter, Harriman switched his major effort to Thomas Murray, onetime Atomic Energy commissioner, and generally classified as a little less to the Democratic left than Tom Finletter...
Lolita is a major work of fiction; it is also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about...
Truth & Sensuality. Has Durrell succeeded in his effort to discover a new "unity" for fiction? He has, to the degree that few readers can be indifferent to his work or unaware that they are encountering a formidable talent. But, as was the case with Proust and Joyce, his greatest impact may be on other writers-who have become increasingly dismayed at the possibility of finding anything to say in the "realistic" novel that has not already been said better by Tolstoy. Dostoevsky, Melville, Thackeray, Balzac...
...dedicated to the proposition that authors are more interesting than critics. Founded in Paris five years ago by a group of bumptious young Americans just out of college, the Review offered as its star turn a series of Q. and A. interviews with writers on the art of writing fiction...
Some literary critics carp at the generally moderate fiction and poetry chosen by Review editors. But in an age of painfully intense analysis of fiction and poetry, the Paris Review has scored a solid beat by the simple device of getting away from the library and talking to the authors themselves. Already, Review is the biggest little magazine in history...