Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be permitted to leave. Sakharov has refused previous invitations to travel outside the country, fearing that he would not be allowed to return. But his wife, Human Rights Activist Yelena Bonner, reportedly said recently that he "felt isolated" and indicated that he might accept a new invitation. Novelist Georgi Vladimov, another prominent dissident, has already accepted a similar guest professorship at the University of Cologne in West Germany. The pattern seemed to fit in with reports that Andropov was giving priority to settling the dissident problem...
...Russian country estate in two successive summers, the play is built around a series of love triangles. The young writer Constantine Treplev is hopelessly in love with the young and beautiful would-be actress Nina Zarechny. But Nina--the Seagull--is infatuated with Boris Trigorin, the famous novelist and lover of the actress Irina Arkadina. Constantine's mother. At the same time, Masha, the daughter of the estate manager, is deeply and futilely in love with Constantine, though she herself is loved by the local schoolteacher. As these characters work out their separate fates, the play explores the relationship...
...point. Hardworking and hard-drinking, the critic had lived like the free-spirited artists he wrote about. But by 1940 he was suffering from more than a hangover. The early death of his friend from Princeton days, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an intimation of mortality. His third marriage, to Novelist Mary McCarthy, was headed toward certain divorce, and his growing isolationism was undermining his stature as a serious commentator on his times...
...prove that dictum. In The White Hotel, his collaborative efforts were a critical and popular success. That novel began as an ingenious imitation of a case history by Freud, then moved to an account of the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, originally written by a Russian novelist, Anatoli Kuznetsov. But what was an effective device in The White Hotel has become a conceit in Ararat. The density of literary allusion in Thomas' latest novel has rendered it virtually unintelligible...
Greek tragedies Euripides was there, and so was Irish novelist James Joyce. But when the night was done, it was Peter Weiss's book. The Investigation, as orally interpreted by Justin Richardson '85 that captured the Boylston Prize, Harvard's oldest award...