Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones settled down with Wife Gloria (a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) in a three-room Paris walk-up overlooking the Seine, worked mornings on his latest novel about Jazz Guitarist Bjango Reinhardt, kept afternoons free to match wits with electric pinball machines in neighborhood bistros. Gloria, who has been sampling haute couture, said of the pinballs: "This is a new thing, and I suppose it will pass. He just gets so wound...
...hopes and aspirations, and that they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books by two charter members of the blob school...
...middle-aged but still attractive heroine of this excellent novel by the wife of an Italian diplomat. "Mamma" Cossati is an intimidated, tradition-bound Roman housewife. She is intent on one thing: to maintain a perfect reputation for hard work and for saintly devotion to her family and her gentle husband, an underpaid bank official. Yet her problems cannot be dismissed as resulting merely from poverty and Old World attitudes about a woman's place. When she dreams guiltily of "leaving the dishes in the sink, the laundry unwashed, the beds unmade." or when she tries...
...Voyeur is a savage but pointless reaction against the psychological novel. Instead of probing the mind, the book nearly ignores it, and concentrates on the exact description of things. In accordance with Author Robbe-Grillet's belief that objects are more important than people. The island, a barroom, a bedroom, are etched into the reader's mind, while the story itself and the characters are allowed to go hang. Sooner or later, Robbe-Grillet or one of his disciples is bound to write a novel about a roomful of furniture; the affair between the armchair and the ottoman...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Girl on the Run, a new detective series, has a main character no more novel than an ex-OSS officer. But with Marion (See Here Private . . .) Hargrove to write the script, the show has its moments...