Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future fiction. "I'm working on a rather long novel. But it's a very long way away. Three years...
...story is a "parasite" of the novel, and when the serious novel itself "concentrates on the whacky," as it does today, and "starts from the conviction that society and all who dwell in it are disagreeable and worthless," the detective story is simply thrown off its feed. Good detective fiction needs "a world that we accept because it is conventional . . . Why pursue the criminal if the victim and society are not worth protecting...
Author Leon (Battle Cry) Uris, 34, spent two years and traveled 50,000 miles getting the facts for his story, and he relates it in a serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction. His hero, Ari Ben Canaan, has all the two-dimensional subtlety of a sheriff in a TV western; his heroine, Gentile Kitty Fremont, is so often petty-minded and petulant that some readers may suspect Author Uris of a bias against shiksas. Despite its partisan trimmings, Exodus in large measure...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. Fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, argues Huxley, and he, for one, is reappalled...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Holly Golightly, fiction's most captivating bad little good girl since Sally ("I Am a Camera") Bowles, makes her ribald, touching and irresistible debut...