Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whom might Novelist Meyer Levin have been thinking of when he wrote Gore and Igor (see BOOKS), about a randy, globe-hopping Russian poet whose inspiration goes from bed to verse? Nobody knows, naturally, but Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, did happen to be whooping around South America on publication day. As if to make Levin's publisher even happier, Evtushenko was seen with a mysterious, unnamed Chilean admirer, who followed him to Montevideo and checked into an adjoining hotel room. Come check-out time and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets was still with him, hiding discreetly in one corner...
...popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics. Yet there are few predictions that Galbraith cherishes more?or wishes more that he had never felt com pelled to make?than his warning that a major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam would lead to disaster...
...reasonably serious writer: his credentials, if haphazard, are all in order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...
...novelist invented a character like Lord Byron, he would be set down as an opportunistic fictioneer with an eye on the bestseller list. Byron, after all, was almost too much. He was a good if not great poet; he was handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...
This is the man whom Novelist Frederic Prokosch (The Seven Who Fled) tries to catch in undress. Normally an imaginative writer with considerable flair, Prokosch here employs the tired conceit that Byron left three notebooks at Missolonghi in which he reconstructed his life. As fiction, the book may appeal to those who want to see a flamboyant figure oscillate between homosexuality and heterosexuality with the nice indifference of a metronome. Prokosch uses all the four-letter words that his earlier elegance would have found quite supererogatory. Even more drearily, there is nothing new here about Byron. The hero...