Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN FRANCOISE SAGAN, the celebrated French novelist, was hospitalized in the late 1970s for what turned out to be merely an intestinal obstruction, few of her readers probably thought her writing or her attitudes towards life and love would be changed much. The fast living author of Bonjour Tristesse, a tremendous bestseller in 1954 when she was only 18, had, for 25 years, writer, only of the rich and the worldly suffering through disillusionment and failed love...
Near the end of the play, Peter, a confused young novelist, expresses one of the central paradoxes of Cocktail Party." "But Mr. Henry had been saying, I think, that every minute is a fresh beginning, and Julia, that life is only keeping on; and somehow, the two ideas seem to fit together." The two halves of this perspective show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence...
...industrial park. Inside, the mood is as grim as the dull yellow walls. Rows of double bunk beds line the dormitories. "This reminds me of Dickens," grumbles Resident David Erickson, 33, an unemployed carpet layer. Indeed, Sacramento County in northern California has borrowed a page from the English novelist and revived a 19th century solution to economic hard times: the poorhouse...
HOSPITALIZED. David Niven, 73, debonair British actor, bestselling autobiographer (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring On the Empty Horses) and novelist (Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly); ostensibly for treatment of a digestive problem; in London. Niven suffers from a progressive neuromuscular disorder reported to be the incurable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, which has left him with a speech impairment and partial use of his left hand...
DIED. Valery Tarsis, 76, dissident Soviet novelist who was deprived of his U.S.S.R. citizenship in 1966 during a lecture tour of Britain, becoming the first in a modern line of enforced exiles; after a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland. Once a writer and editor in good official standing, Tarsis grew disillusioned with Communism in the 1950s. The publication abroad of his scathing 1962 novel The Bluebottle earned him an eight-month stay in a Soviet mental hospital, an experience he described in his autobiographical novel Ward 7: "All around him were faces exposed by sleep or distorted by nightmares...