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...Saul Bellow had remained in Quebec, Mordecai Richler would be Canada's second best Jewish novelist. That would be nothing to agitate a stick at. Most of Richler's 10 novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horsemen, are inspired comedies about Montreal's Jewish community, of which the author, now 66, remains a member...
...another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges: no hand is clean. Thomas notes that the true voice of the slave, usually unable to record his own history, is missing. The best substitute, he surmises, is a writer's imagination. "In the end, the novelist beats the historian at his own game," he concludes...
...Albert Hackett and Frances Gooodrich (It's a Wonderful Life), prettied up the diary even more, downplaying specifics of Nazi crimes against the Jews and recasting the story as a universal tale of suffering and hope. The Hackett-Goodrich version supplanted an earlier, more faithful adaptation written by Jewish novelist Meyer Levin, which was rejected as not commercial enough...
...Almost every hand that has approached the diary with the well-meaning intention of publicizing it has contributed to the subversion of history," charged novelist Cynthia Ozick in a recent New Yorker article in which she claimed the diary has been "falsified, kitschified and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied." Ralph Melnick, author of The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, contends that the play so carefully avoids the particulars of the Jews' plight under Hitler that it almost becomes "a drama of people who were suffering through a housing shortage...
...ANGELES: Steven Spielberg says the slave drama "Amistad," set to be released Wednesday, might be "the most important (film) of my career." Novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud, who wrote about the same slave-ship rebellion in her 1989 book "Echo of Lions," thinks it's the most important film of hers...