Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only in the novel's apocalyptic last scene, in which he finds his artistic torch, does Author Weiss seem to recapture a literary fire. His hero's marriage is a failure, his two-year-old daughter has been deposited with his mother. His long way's journey toward his own identity leads him to Paris. And there one day, sitting in a wicker chair in a Left Bank cafe, he suddenly realizes that he can escape his perennial sense of personal and artistic vagabondage. By accepting the German language, "the language I had learned at the beginning...
...simpler society. To middle-aged Americans, they can also be embarrassments with commercials. Did the public truly love those painful Blondie pictures so much that Hollywood made 28 of them? How did Turhan Bey ever become a star? Did anyone really take Errol Flynn seriously in Desperate Journey, after he sabotaged German munitions plants, hijacked a Nazi bomber and shouted: "Now for Australia and a crack at those Japs...
...scampers away shouting "Feets do yo' stuff!" Says the comic: "I don't want any dark innuendoes." Chirps the chauffeur: "Anybody call me?" Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been a long journey to this moment," said Sidney Poitier when he received his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963. But his was only the last lap. The first million miles were traveled by Eddie Anderson, Stepin' Fetchit, Willie Best, Butterfly McQueen and other gifted actors whose long ride...
...becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing rambler." Writing for him was a mysterious journey that never quite reached its destination. Both as an artist and as a man, he lived in tormented transit...
Dark ax the Grave is the story of a Dantean pilgrimage into the inferno of the past with Lowry transparently disguised as Sigbjorn Wilderness, a hard-drinking and "monumentally unsuccessful" novelist. A man given to "making up his life as he goes along," Wilderness is not sure whether his journey is in search of salvation or some ultimate bonfire of damnation...