Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor, 34-year-old Novelist Dickens lasted 17 days. Then he quit, told the proprietors (a radical industrialist and the publishers of the then radical weekly Punch) that he was "tired to death and quite worn...
Lillian also knew some of the less Freudian folk in Willowspring-honest fellows who reached halting conclusions about politics and life. They said, in what Novelist Howard believes to be Pennsylvania dialect: "Maybe this here givern-givern-givernment of the United States was found-foundered by the people fer the people...
...hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
American Genre. Novelist Thomas Mann recently proclaimed Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "the greatest detective novel of all time" (TIME, Jan. 21). It was a considerable tribute, and there was considerable doubt among detective-story addicts whether Dostoevsky deserves it. Some critical minds which are addicted to detective stories believe that today more craftsmanship goes into mystery novels than into all other kinds of novel combined. Moreover, successful murder still requires imagination, as much as in the days of Edgar Allan...
...story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally shot by her third or fourth lover, Ravic prepares to operate on her. Then he finds that...