Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker quotations from the manuscript, smuggled out of France by a Stein friend in "the front of her dress," Author Stein explained her heroine's good birth: "She was born on Tuesday and the next day was Wednesday and she was a day old on Wednesday." The novel ("more about Tuesdays than about roses") includes characters Hitler, Stalin, and Angel Harper. "When a little dog sticks himself on a needle on the floor he cries right away. When a little child falls down he does not cry till he is picked up. This has a great deal...
Though Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck et al. never use the old-fashioned language of theology, the world they describe is a world where the people are predestined to the damnation of death, defeat, madness or senility. In The Lost Weekend, an unevenly brilliant first novel, the sense of damnation is strong. But even stronger is the sense of suspense−will he escape? why can't he escape? why doesn't the damn fool answer that telephone?0−which is the quality that makes the hopeless tale into a horror story, luring the reader...
...sense, every novel creates a little world of its own. In that sense The Lost Weekend is a world inhabited by only one soul, and that one damned. The story tells of five days in the life of Don Birnam, a clever coward who is drinking himself to death...
...disappointing cinemadap-tation of Charlotte Bronte's story about the long-suffering governess who finally marries Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), the melancholic and irascible squire with the mad wife. There is little success in capturing the Brontean intensity of atmosphere and of character which should have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period-act; but an act is not acting and Novelist Bronte's Rochester...
This is a first novel. Angry and intense, it is half sharp-eyed, unsparing war reporting and half fast-moving, self-consciously hard-boiled fiction. It is the story of what happens behind the lines of a typical Italian town in the confused interlude between war and reconstruction- when the Germans have been driven out and the Allies have come in, when the fascists are out of office but the civilian governments have not yet been set up, and when the high aims for which the war was fought disappear before the realities of incompetence, brutality, red tape, swollen eyes...