Word: maschler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of stagnancy are noticeable in the two up-and-rising Londoners who collaborated under the pseudonym Mark Caine. Tom Maschler, 27, who thought up the S-Man, is editor in chief of the venerable publishing firm of Jonathan Cape. Frederic Raphael, who wrote most of the book, is a film and TV scriptwriter and author of a successful novel, The Limits of Love, due for April publication...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...
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