Word: moorcock
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Directed by KEVIN CONNOR Screenplay by JAMES CAWTHORN and MICHAEL MOORCOCK...
...Last Days of Man on Earth is decked out with an abundance of style by Robert Fuest, who designed, direct ed and wrote it, somewhat overreaching himself in that last department. The movie, even though adapted from a nov el by Science-Fiction Specialist Michael Moorcock, is chaotic for most of its first half. It is also a great deal...
BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS by MICHAEL MOORCOCK 174 pages. Random House...
Britain's Michael Moorcock is both bizarrely inventive and highly disciplined as he rockets from blood-and-thunder histrionics to wry social satire in his latest fantasy, Breakfast in the Ruins. In it, Karl Glogauer, a young Englishman, swaps physical and mental identities with a strange African with whom he has a homosexual encounter...
Tune and place are also cut loose; interwoven with the story of Karl's transformation are 18 historical sketches covering more than 100 years of European history. Moorcock shows Karl as an orphan who sees his mother murdered in the Paris Commune of 1871. From a London sweatshop in 1906 he is drawn into revolutionary violence. Later he plays the violin in Auschwitz. The book is by turns puzzling, funny and shocking. By 1990, with Karl sitting in the ruins of London, Moorcock has brilliantly demonstrated his point-that man's imagination has always driven him deep Into...