Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maupassant's novel was a relentless demonstration of what a thoroughly corrupt man can do to get ahead in a thoroughly corrupt society. Its cynical moral: sufficient vice usually succeeds and goes unpunished, whereas halfhearted vice -like virtue - is likely to enjoy less spectacular rewards. Mr. Lewin's modification: vice generally gets too smart for its own good. George Sanders, who starred in both of Lewin's previous pictures and is a sort of staff Lothario, by now does this kind of work very efficiently. The supporting cast is competent and the picture is lovingly made...
...become almost a truism that the fattest U.S. publishers' prizes go to poor novels. Resting firmly in this tradition, Black Fountains has won its author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...
...Tokyo until he was 18. Then he went to high school in Atlantic City, to the University of Edinburgh, and wound up in Malaya as a British intelligence officer with the Indian Army. The next time he saw Japan was as a prisoner of war. He started his novel in Bibai Prison Camp...
...Life of a Great Sinner was the title that Dostoevsky gave to a vast novel for which he made reams of notes but which he never managed to write. Instead, members of A Great Sinner's huge projected cast of characters kept escaping prematurely from their creator's notebooks and showing up in his completed works. Some of them became prominent people in The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov; a few (including the Great Sinner himself, in his young manhood) became part of A Raw Youth, least known of Dostoevsky's major novels. Published first...
When baby-Jove Arkady descends on St. Petersburg to win his thunderbolts, he gets smacked around by as wild a gang of personalities as ever smudged the pages of a Russian novel. They range from desperate male & female aristocrats, struggling frenziedly to retain their power and money, to hordes of sly, ice-hard usurers, pimps and blackmailers. The never-ending battle between these two groups is fought out in luxurious palaces, in squalid lodging houses, and cafés filled with the thick stench of "burned meat, restaurant napkins, and tobacco...