Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witty, self-effacing and very British way, Braithwaite also has a lot to say about contemporary fiction in general. His opinions are marked by their forthrightness, as in his assertion that he's "saving Virginia Woolf for when I'm dead," or his hilarious skewering of Marquezian pyrotechnics; "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches...
...FICTION...
...FICTION: The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel...
...self-taught country girl from Warwickshire writes to her father declaring that she will no longer attend church. Speaking of the Scriptures, she pronounces, "I regard these writings as histories consisting of mingled truth and fiction." There is no arguing with her; Eliot knows as much about theology as the clergymen affronted by her heresy. Even the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson is impressed when she informs him that Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is the first book to "awaken her to deep reflection...
...free himself from his conspicuously unfaithful wife. Eliot's scandalous but happy liaison with Lewes produces few letters, because for 24 years the couple are hardly ever out of each other's sight. Still, Eliot's correspondence is full of references to the man who insists that she write fiction and who encourages his self- doubting and often depressed companion, novel after novel. In gratitude she chooses his first name for her pseudonym, and her last because "Eliot was a good mouth-filling, easily-pronounced word...