Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory hero of Kenneth Roberts' new novel...
...January death claimed the author of famed stream-of-consciousness novel "Ulysses"- Irish, impoverished, nearly blind...
...world of letters blinked a little in 1937 when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard. His long novel, Les Thibault, was little known outside France; he was something of a recluse who saw what he wanted to see of the world through a peephole, and who wrote from a photostatic recollection of his own top-drawer bourgeois life before and during World War I. When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason...
...cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...
...through the southern Philippines searching for caches of firearms, finally docks while her old body is torn apart and filled with new organs. The human action is a series of bloody brawls, the friendships and conflicts of men too close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author...