Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less Conclusive Conclusions. Like all parody, his is ultimately a critique of the conventions he is parodying. In one disarming aside to the reader, Fowles argues that the Victorian novelist, aided by his assumed omniscience, patted life into artificial patterns and robbed characters of reality. While the Victorians believed that "the novelist stands next to God," Fowles takes his stand next to Godot. He proclaims that the novelist's first principle is the "freedom that allows other freedoms to exist," namely those of his characters. To illustrate the point, he twice ties up his narrative strands in tidy traditional...
...that time, he reports, got twice the wages given bachelors), and provocative sociological speculations (the Victorians, he suggests, may have enjoyed sex even more than our own oversexed century, because they practiced it less frequently). The purpose of all this is to place his characters, as no Victorian novelist could have, in a long perspective as exemplars of the historical currents of their time...
...book is finally about. Fashionably, but compellingly, Fowles sees freedom not as an escape but a return-a return to a more natural order, to a more fundamental morality of self-discovery and self-fulfillment. The same is true, Fowles seems to be saying, of the freedom of the novelist and his fictional creations...
William Goldman, novelist ( Boys and Girls Together ) and screenwriter ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ). spent a year hanging around Broadway and following shows like Angela from birth to death. He wrote a book about his experiences. The Season , and, If you care anything about the theater at all. there is every chance it will turn your stomach...
...Novelist Mallet-Joris, however, seems imaginatively sure of the answers. She is a Belgian educated at Bryn Mawr. It is not frivolous to say that she learned the feel of the late 16th and early 17th centuries by writing these novels, and that she wrote them in order to learn. Ordinary historical research, the reading of the documents, was only a beginning; the more important part of her learning, it is clear, came as her characters took form and motion. What clay and what fire make a witch? Write a novel, watch, and find out. The method works...