Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate the "scientific sociology" from the ruthless, end-justifying-means idolatry of the state that goes with it? Author Miller does not say. He is sufficiently aware of the problem to quote Novelist Arthur Koestler's classic damnation, in Darkness at Noon, of the Marxist revolutionary...
Sharply diverging from the views expressed by E. M. Forster, British novelist and critic, in Thursday's opening meeting, Professor Edgar Wind of Smith College suggested that a split between the critical and creative states of mind is not between men, but within the individual...
Setting the key for the three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism," the English novelist and critic discussed the basic differences between the critical and creative processes, in a forty-five minute speech that intermittently rocked the audience with laughter...
...been a pretty hopeless drunkard since he was 18. In sober intervals, he managed to succeed as a poet and novelist. Married twice, he had sacrificed both devoted women, in turn, to his love for liquor. All the usual treatments had failed: psychiatry, mental hospitals, sanitariums, Alcoholics Anonymous. Knowin, that he was on the verge of insanity, and terrified by his hallucinations, he took a job as attendant in a mental hospital. That...
...Brod recalls that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living...