Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such muscular diversification is all the more impressive since Caterpillar traces its origins to a single product. The original steam-driven Cat was developed in 1904 by a Californian named Benjamin Holt, who got the novel idea of mounting a tractor on its own treadmill tracks. So successful was Holt's "crawler" concept that it inspired the British invention of the armored tank during World...
American Smell. The novel's hero is a 39-year-old Cuban named Malabre, whose furniture store, apartment building and car have been expropriated by the government. In compensation, Malabre gets a monthly pension that is supposed to continue for 13 years, though he suspects it will not. Both his parents and his wife are "90-milers," that is, Cubans who have fled across the narrow channel to the U.S. Malabre stayed behind because "I already know the States: but what's happening here is a mystery to me." He drifts through the Havana streets under the "diarrhea...
Author Desnoes, 37, was working as a journalist in New York when Castro took power, and went home of his own accord because "I never would be anybody outside my country." He now lives in Havana and is an editor of Cuba's national book-publishing company. The novel seems to give a picture of Castro's Cuba, warts and all: the endless waiting in lines, bureaucratic inefficiency, food shortages, paucity of merchandise in stores, and such trivial but revealing irritations as delays in deliveries of soft drinks because there are no corks for the bottles...
Since the decline of literary existentialism, French fiction has been dominated by four authors-Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Butor and Duras-who write the anti-roman, the non-novel in which characters are impersonal, time floats out the window, and action is as fragmented as a cracked kaleidoscope. The casual reader may well have trouble telling one anti-novelist from another, but in the case of Marguerite Duras, the problem is simple: she is the only natural writer. The others construct fiction to demonstrate a pet theory. She writes about people and their moods with incomparable ease and sensuality...
These qualities are nowhere more apparent than in The Sailor from Gibraltar, an expansive, leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...