Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Mann finished, he had written the story of a story of a story of a story. Step by step, Joseph the Provider is hard going. But from time to time, on the book's Saharan horizons, loom rich oases of pure storytelling-some as long as a novel...
...play had something, too. Anything but a good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...
These two massive novels were launched with a publicity salute of all but invasion intensity. William Cameron's The Day is Coming (573 pages about working-class life in England from 1887 to 1939) was blurbed as "the sort of novel Dickens might have written." Victor White's Peter Domanig (704 pages about working-class life in Vienna from 1905 to 1920) was called "one of the classics of aoth Century literature." All such extravagances aside, one fact was plain: both novels were solidly based on the bitter, intense, personal histories of their respective authors...
...whose slums have long been a happy hunting ground for reformers and revolutionaries. Among the hunters: George Bernard Shaw, Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor ("Tussy") Marx Aveling, Russian Anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin, Socialist Poet and Craftsman William Morris-all of whom appear in Author Cameron's novel. The hero is a young proletarian named Arthur Cullen. When young Cullen heard that William Morris planned to mitigate the horrors of industrial progress by reviving medieval handicrafts, he became the great man's ardent disciple...
This week New England's latest flowering produced a veritable rum blossom. Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel...