Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...souls; the finest of today's short-story writers usually probe into the remote corners of the heart. Preferably the heart should be broken, guilty or sick, but at the very least it must be troubled. One of the finest heart specialists now practicing in U.S. short fiction is Jean Stafford. A meticulous workman, she makes no quack's diagnosis, and the cases she has taken on have been few. Her favorites make up the table of contents of Children Are Bored on Sunday, and most of these stories are calculated to engage the heart of any reader...
...Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction after Manzoni," said D. H. Lawrence. Between the two,'born half a century apart, runs the great divide of 19th century European literature, on the one side romanticism, on the other realism. If Manzoni is Italy's Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too. Now the finest of Verga's novels, I Malavoglia, is introduced to U.S. readers as The House by the Medlar Tree. The Malavoglia are a family of boatmen. Verga's is the plain tale...
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A man of action confronts life with one of the most affirmative philosophies in recent fiction; a modern Greek masterpiece by last year's runner-up for the Nobel Prize (TIME, April...
...Expression in American Literature," a new course offered by the English department, will be given by guest lecturer Alfred Kazin, noted critic. He will deal with fiction, poetry, history, and philosophy drawn from all periods of American literature. The English department also announced that English 160, Modern English and American Drama, will be given by a guest lecturer from Stanford University...
Professor I. A. Richards' lucid essay, "The Idea of a University," seems out of place among the fiction. A thoughtful argument for returning to Plato's synoptic view of education, this material was first presented at an Eliot House symposium. Evidently the Advocate is reprinting Richards' text to bring it before a more limited audience...