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Outside his native France, Novelist Georges Perec (1936-82) was known chiefly as a member of OuLiPo, an acronym for Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). The authors and scientists who constituted this informal group had a common goal: the discovery of new or fiendishly difficult and complex ways of arranging words in sequence. When it came to setting Procrustean rules and then writing freely in spite of them, none of the OuLiPo circle was more inventive and whimsical than Perec. He composed a full-length novel, La Disparition, without once using the letter e. He devised...
...provocations of Bonfire are not gratuitous. They are embedded in convincing contexts and experienced through the eyes, ears and nerve endings of the characters. This technique is what makes Wolfe's journalism so vital and gives him authority as a novelist. This, and his ability to handle an imaginative and intricate plot that welds his descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force. Even at more than 600 pages, Bonfire moves with a swift comic logic. It has become a critical cliche to say that a book is hard...
...widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer Sally Bowles (Alyson Reed) has no chance of changing his orientation. Thus his fate no longer rests in her unsteady hands...
...notion of a drama inside a drama, set in an institution and authenticated by history, provided Marat/Sade with its power. Some 20 years later, Australian Novelist Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) attempts the same tour de force with a fictive account of an incident in 1789, when his native land was a penal colony. There, a troupe of convicts acted in George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer, under the supervision of their frowning keepers. The opportunities for irony are omnipresent: male and female prisoners, known as lags and she-lags, are liberated into their parts, while ! guards are locked...
...were she much older, Eisenstadt would not have benefitted from the publicity she is getting as a novice novelist; like so many first works, From Rockaway could have easily gotten lost on bookstore shelves. Of course, these days, all the interviews she does are keeping Eisenstadt away from her favorite activity--writing--although she expects to finish her next book, which won't be about Rockaway, some time next year...