Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of your country. Now you can." Another Czechoslovak who found that he could come home again is Author Ladislav Mriačko, who went into exile last summer in protest over his government's pro-Arab policy. Mnačko is back in Prague, where his biting novel about a Communist leader's downfall, The Taste of Power, has just been published for the first time...
DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, by Malcolm Lowry. A 1945-46 visit to Mexico furnished the basis for this fragmented, posthumous half-novel by a boozy-brilliant man to whom writing was an unending journey and life the landscape under the volcano...
...Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron's novel about the 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize, has sold over 175,000 copies so far, and is still comfortably at home on the bestseller lists. On this evidence alone, the book would seem to deserve at least respectful attention; indeed, it seems to have been the right novel at the right time. But, peculiarly, Nat Turner has provoked an astonishing amount of wrath from black militants, as well as a nasty exchange in The Nation between Styron and Communist Theoretician and Historian Herbert Aptheker, who claims that...
Telling Blows. It is always possible to attack a historical novel on grounds of inaccuracy and faulty detail. It is particularly difficult in this case, since there is actually very little known about Turner himself or the rebellion. But since the ultimate sources of characterizations and events in fiction lie deep in the creative unconscious, such arguments, even if historically true, border on irrelevancy. The essayists, led by John Henrik Clarke, an editor of the militant Negro magazine Freedomways, repeat the same points endlessly and separately, but this does not necessarily validate them. Nor does a reprinting of the full...
When John Hersey, determined to do a book on the Detroit riots, chose to concentrate on the events at the Algiers Motel, he had settled on an incident rich in tragedy and drama, one that is a good basis for a novel. He chose, however, to explore the situation in a work of reportage, foregoing his opportunity, as perhaps the best-informed observer of the affair, to propose answers to moot questions and to make judgements on the players and the action of the drama. One wishes he had written the novel, or at least darned the holes...