Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist countries, home truths are best disguised as fiction. The following remarkable fable, written by Czech Author Jiri Marek, appeared recently in the Prague Communist weekly Literarni Noviny...
Heroic Sailor Horatio Hornblower is a durable fiction stalwart who has seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more...
...Said Faulkner last week when asked whether he meant this literally: "I am a fiction writer and I am not responsible for any construction made on any interview I have ever given...
Algren, an honest writer, has written scenes in A Walk whose brutality and sordidness can hardly be equaled in contemporary fiction. That he means the book to be a caress for the most degraded members of society and a protest against social injustice is obvious. But in supposing that human virtue flourishes best among degenerates, Novelist Algren has dressed his sense of compassion in the rags of vulgarity...
...horrors Hitler made, it is possible that the war on the Eastern front was the worst. It is a proper paradox that the worst has inspired the best in postwar German fiction. Two recent samples...