Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. From an unpromising cast of New Orleans drifters and wastrels, the author has fashioned a vibrant first novel...
...scruffy Ambassador Theater, normally a pad for psychedelic frolics, was the scene of an unscheduled scatological solo last week in support of the peace demonstrations. Its anti-star was Author Norman Mailer, who proved even less prepared to explain Why Are We in Viet Nam? than his current novel bearing that title...
...came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his family persuaded him to move to Europe for his own safety. In 1933, Asturias returned home, became a radio broadcaster, worked on his first novel, then went into the diplomatic service...
Asturias is a novelist of the poor and oppressed; he fills his books with the same gothic ribaldry and nightmarish fantasies that Hieronymus Bosch brooded on five centuries ago. In his latest novel, Mulata, published in the U.S. a month ago, boars talk, women are impregnated through the navel, men are transformed into dwarfs, giants or rocks. A healer tests the sacredness of a place by touching the earth "with the ten tongues of his hands." When an old woman dozes, she is "butterflying with sleep like all old people." When a crowd gathers, "nightfall assembled them...
...episodic nature of Reflections in a Golden Eye apparently results from its attempt to include the substance of the Carson McCullers novel on which it is based. The movie skips from point to point, initially dwelling on the female lead's (Elizabeth Taylor) affair with her husband's immediate superior at a Georgia army base. It swoops in on an enlisted man's strange infatuation with Miss Taylor, swipes briefly at the mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon...