Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Jane Eyre, the novel, was always faintly absurd and decidedly lurid. But to a story bordering on trash, Charlotte Bronte brought storytelling bordering on genius. Told by uncoy, buffeted, orphanage-bred Jane herself-who comes as governess to Thornfield Hall, where the Byronic Mr. Rochester has a mad wife hidden away-Jane Eyre advances, in a rush of words, with a beat of real emotion...
...that it starts off with the bang of a whodunit and then tails off into the world of Germanic near mysticism. I'm Not Stiller is already a European bestseller and has been hailed as a masterpiece; perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as the first novel since World War II that has tried to exploit the rich, mixed inheritance handed down by Kafka, Koestler and Mann...
...Rome, Conjugal Love ) has often written about sex as man's hex. In Two Women he all but abandons sensuality for sorrow, all but ignores the battle of the sexes for the real war that raged across his native Italy in the '405. The result is a novel curiously dated as to period and theme, but strikingly different as a work from Moravia...
...break the two women's morale. Before the desecrated altar of a shattered church, Rosetta is raped by a squad of French Moroccan soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...