Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milestones [July 14] reports that Ronald Searle has married British Novelist Monica Stirling. This is incorrect; I have never met Mr. Searle. He has, I believe, married another Monica Stirling, who is a stage designer. I would be grateful if you would clear up this confusion, as it must be as troublesome to Mr. and Mrs. Searle as to myself...
...HOWEVER MUCH I MAY ENJOY HER BOOKS, I HAVE NEVER MET MISS MONICA STIRLING, BRITISH NOVELIST, IN MY LIFE AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT MARRIED...
Arrests are less frequent than they used to be for ideological transgressions, but Russian writers are well aware that they are still at the mercy of the Soviet bureaucracy. At the Fourth Congress of the Soviet Writers' Union last May, Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) circulated a statement charging that there were "more than 600 writers whom the Writers' Union obediently handed over to their fate in prisons and camps." Solzhenitsyn's letter was a daring diatribe against censorship that accused the censors of making Russian literature "something infinitely poorer, flatter...
Married. Ronald Searle, 47, scalpel-sharp British cartoonist, creator of the spindly legged fiends known as the Belles of St. Trinian's; and Monica Stirling, fiftyish, British novelist (The Boy in Blue) and Searle's longtime companion; he for the second time; in Paris...
...been dominated by four authors-Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Butor and Duras-who write the anti-roman, the non-novel in which characters are impersonal, time floats out the window, and action is as fragmented as a cracked kaleidoscope. The casual reader may well have trouble telling one anti-novelist from another, but in the case of Marguerite Duras, the problem is simple: she is the only natural writer. The others construct fiction to demonstrate a pet theory. She writes about people and their moods with incomparable ease and sensuality...