Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION 1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week...
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. The author of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy experiments with 14 inventive pieces of fiction, some of which are intended to be heard as well as read...
Cause for Optimism. For the duchess, the outlook seemed gloomy. But in a surprising move, the press tribunal last week cleared her of the charges, in effect ruling that all works of fiction fall outside existing Spanish legislation. Some observers speculated that in view of conspicuous and longstanding government pressure, the decision represented less a display of leniency from above than a spirited show of independence by the lower courts. The duchess still faces the possibility of trial on similar charges in other courts, but the newly established precedent offered fresh cause for optimism. "In Spain," the duchess once said...
...Heartland. Not many men have lived as fully and as widely as Guimarāes Rosa did in his 59 years. Born in the feral heartland state of Minas Gerais, he was a physician, veterinarian, herbist, linguist, diplomat and government official in charge of border affairs. Writing fiction was just another way of annexing experience, and he occupied his territory thoroughly and imaginatively. His novel Grande Sertào: Veredas, published in the U.S. in 1963 as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, is encyclopedic in its embrace of Minas Gerais ecology. Yet it is as exciting...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...