Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asks the novelist why he writes novels or the poet what is his purpose in writing poems. The lilies of the field, as I remember were not required to have a demonstrable purpose. Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake as the record of human behavior, the most fascinating subject of all? Insistence on a purpose turns the historian into a prophet--and that is another profession...
...notion always flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness he could bear to his age and its possible consequences. His energy and imagination have been aroused most keenly by doubt, the sense...
King is the novelist of middle America. Anyone who sells as many books as he does and writes about the eerie topics he chooses--vampires, ghosts, mad dogs--is usually tossed off by the critics as a purveyor of supermarket literature. But King pays no attention to those effete reviewers concerned with literary value; he knows that everyone goes to the supermarket...
...shards of this experience, Appelfeld, now a renowned Israeli novelist, has composed a tale of appalling symmetry. Among Appelfeld's many novels and stories of the Holocaust (Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders), Tzili best exemplifies Kafka's bitter aphorism, "The arrows fit exactly in the wounds they have made...
...Humes is not a free-lance author but a novelist and independent researcher. Attention to detail is of course the foundation of accurate journalism. But these omissions are relatively trivial compared to your distortion of the argument that was advanced. We hope your readers understand that Humes argued that mass anxiety-neurosis affect governments, and that weapons fetishism, sometimes a symptom in the individual anxiety-neurotic is affecting the behavior of the super-powers. We consider accurate understanding of this point to be of such importance that we have published two short pamphlets on the subject. Indeed we consider...