Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bought Elephant and Castle last week and have reached page 163 ... but already your reviewer [TIME, Feb. 21] has dulled the edge of my enjoyment. Not because he found the novel boring (everybody to his own taste), but because he ... disposed of all the drama in one sentence: "Gian's nutty old father . . ." Your reviewer has spoiled everything for me. Had he broken into my apartment and made off with [the book] I could call the police. But he has done worse than that . . . He has robbed me of anticipation, conjecture, apprehension, fear, dismay. The unopened book...
...hurried to Mississippi on location to film William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, a novel about an attempted lynching. Twentieth Century-Fox was preparing Pinky, a story about miscegenation, and had in reserve No Way Out, a tale of a Negro intern. In New England, Louis de Rochement, the first to announce a project on the Negro theme, was shooting for Film Classics, Inc. a picture called Lost Boundaries, about Negroes who pass for whites...
Devil in the Flesh (Graetz; A.F.E.), when it first appeared in France a couple of years ago, caused the devil of a row. Like the celebrated autobiographical novel on which it was based,* it was rough on French national dignity (the municipal council of Bordeaux denounced it as "shocking, painful and scabrous") but enthusiastically received by the public (it ran to packed houses for more than a year...
James M. Cain's novel "Serenade," on trial for obscenity in Suffolk Superior Court, got a helping hand last week from Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer in English...
...Continental novel will be discussed by Renato Poggioli, associate professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, will talk on the American novel...