Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of the world's literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would not, however, win any prizes as the most read-or most readable. His ninth and latest novel, Dr. Faustus, is probably his most difficult. A November co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club,* Dr. Faustus is a challenge to the club's membership, who will find it a chewy mouthful after some of the literary pap they have been fed recently...
This is Somerset Maugham's 22nd novel. He has announced that it is also to be his last. If he sticks to that, 74-year-old Author Maugham, England's most popular contemporary novelist, will have brought to an end a career that has included such lasting favorites as Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, and The Moon and Sixpence, as well as 57 volumes of short stories, essays, travel books and plays...
...novelist, Giuseppe Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...
Died. René Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France...
...fully enjoy The Saxon Charm, it would be necessary to believe in the writer as a writer and to be pretty thoroughly taken in by Mr. Saxon's charm. Since Novelist Wakeman is not exactly a dazzling writer himself, he has not created a very interesting one; nor is John Payne equipped by nature to play an author with much plausibility. Since Saxon's conduct, 90% of the time, is about as uncharming as possible, the problem of selling him to an audience ought to be tougher than it turns...