Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor and a murderer, but also a cozy illegal traffic in narcotics. To square a beef by New York City authorities, Actor Conte announces in a foreword that the story never really happened. The movie itself then makes the point perfectly clear. Though it never rises above routine crime fiction, the film gains considerable interest simply from Bellevue and the city streets and the Manhattan skyline...
...driven sadistically insane by her husband's absolute incorruptibility. Wherever Christopher shows up-in government offices, in country retreats, even in the mud of France-he finds Sylvia there, turning men's minds against him. As a woman, Sylvia is probably the worst bitch in 20th Century fiction, and scarcely credible. But as a symbol of merciless revolution against old, established order she is the core of Ford's social tragedy...
...Ford, Christopher Tietjens, incorruptible paragon, represented "the last English Tory." The implied compliment is one that even the most ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle...
Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander who was there (TIME, Sept...
Wilson's book is called a novel, but it hardly matters that it is really a tribute and a reminiscence, wholly lacking in the artfulness of true fiction. There is no plot, just as infantry fighting has no plot. There is no special hero; Narrator Considine is just a member of one squad who Jived to tell the story. But there is tension, excitement and the imminence of death that needs no assist from tricks of fiction. The result is a blend as true as Bill Mauldin's best drawings and Ernie Pyle's best dispatches...