Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. The Italian novelist listens to young love's first brave banalities with a nice ear for irony...
Some playwrights bring their lives into the theater. Others bring only their reading lists. The Man in the Glass Booth proves that Playwright Robert Shaw, the English actor and novelist, has read accounts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as well as Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Israel and the comments on Hannah Arendt's book. Unfortunately, his play recapitulates the past without transforming it. It raises the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity and the paranoic personality of the archkiller, along with a recital of atrocities. But it offers no fresh illumination...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...
...author of three brief and bizarre novels (Trot, Seconds, The Tour), Ely commands a novelist's range of skillful settings. What he lacks is the final power to shake and shock the reader by suddenly opening a pit of darkness beneath him, or by fleetingly convincing him that things like werewolves do exist. Ely's style is too smoothly controlled for that, and perhaps the age is too secular...
Eventually, Aubrey was bounced, and Brasselle clattered out after him, vowing to fight back. Brasselle has held to his promise, this time impersonating a novelist. The Cannibals, "A Novel About Television's Savage Chieftains," is not much of a novel, but it is savage enough to please any cannibal...