Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvador Dali, super-successful surrealist, explained-in glossy Town & Country -how he did it: ''I am quite probably the artist who works the hardest." Dali said he wrote his "long and boring" forthcoming novel in four New Hampshire months of '"fourteen implacable hours" of work a day. His heroine, Solange de Cleda, is a symbol of what he calls Cledalism-"pleasure and pain sublime in an all-transcending identification with the object...
...James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
...Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming one-man show in Harlem will include pictures of Cab Galloway, Marian Anderson, Bill Robinson, Ethel...
Author George Sessions Perry has served a dish of Hackberries before in a moving, serious novel called Hold Autumn in Your Hand. Hackberry Cavalier is more of a side dish-17 rollicking, frivolous stories (mostly reprinted from the Satevepost and other magazines) crammed with action and built around romance as soft as a two-minute egg. Readers who like their romance that way will like Author Perry's staggering galaxy of buxom, cherry-cheeked girls...
...most Americans Andre Gide's name means little. Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die, and his perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944 was going to be Gide year in the U.S. Publisher Alfred Knopf planned to publish Gide's Imaginary Interviews (discussions of art and society written while Gide was in Vichy France). French publisher in exile Jacques Schiffrin was preparing a French edition of Gide's latest Journals...