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...been unofficially mentioned as a runner-up for nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just...
...literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger...
Lysergic acid diethylamide was entirely legal in California until October 1966, and the mind-expanding drug made popular in these parts by ex-Prof. Timothy Leary fueled the "Hashberry" from start to finish. Publicly-advertised acid tests--group tripping experiences organized by novelist Ken ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") Kesey and his Merry Pranksters--spread the wonder drug from the province of a few enlightened intellectuals to the grasp of any who wanted to know...
DIED. Helen MacInnes, 77, best-selling novelist of international intrigue; in New York City. Four of her 21 books, including Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, were made into movies. She was married for 46 years to Gilbert Highet, the noted classics scholar and critic who accompanied her on European research trips and who died...
SCHLOCK IS A MISUNDERSTOOD art, especially in the hands of Mordecai Richler, Montreal novelist and author of the screenplay for the new film, Joshua Then and Now. After the following hatchet job, I daresay you'll agree...