Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stranger Than Fiction. In Memphis, Howard Miller, hoping to brush off an old girl friend, told her that he was wanted in seven states by the police, was picked up when cops got wind of his tale, then jailed on a genuine forgery charge when he paid his bail with a phony $100 check...
...additional passport of one who taught algebra to the blind after leaving college. That the problems she sensed were deeper than those she put to her students is clearly evident in The Fourth World, a world as eerie and haunting as any that this year's crop of fiction is apt to produce...
...book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts are known, and the fiction is laid in with a sober sense of historical responsibility. Hitler is not ridiculed; Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote the film, and G. W. Pabst, who directed it, have had the good taste to realize that a man who caused the deaths of millions is nothing to be laughed at. Yet neither...
...that was overly fastidious, snobbish and unworldly about him, the James who emerges from the autobiography looks much more like a staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings," but far more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft...
Henry James lived life too much at second hand, and knew it. He tried to make up for lack of experience with intensity of perception. He said his yes to life in his late fiction, but it had behind it the pathos of a shy lifetime of noes: "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? . . . The right time is any time that one is still...