Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is an eccentric misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a stunning performance that is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style, Alec McCowen manages to evoke for Rolfe a sense of pity and affection...
...FIXER is actually a 20th century Job, who becomes, to his own surprise, something of a hero. John Frankenheimer directs this adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel with impressive force, while such actors as Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm play difficult parts with vigorous dedication...
...Hannah Green's 1964 novel of an institutionalized schizophrenic girl who created a fantasy world where imaginary rules alternately punished and rewarded...
...dead cat, an eight-year-old boy, a picture dealer, a handful of pigeons and an insurance agent-hardly the cast of War and Peace, I must agree." So speaks the witty but slightly (?) deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer, master painter and hero (?) of this fantastical and compelling first novel. The unlikely tale that does evolve draws the unwitting narrator into a plot to palm off one of his works as a Leonardo da Vinci. Somewhat later he proceeds to poison no fewer than seven people in a visionary effort to meet and kill...
None of it matters until the end of the book, when the lovers, having established their own household, contrive to act out all their negative impulses in one big destructive act: the drowning, through negligence, of their child. The novel, which is self-indulgent in the extreme, would not matter either except for the precision of Mosley's prose, the aphorisms with which he decorates it and the nagging feeling he gives the reader that perhaps he has, almost despite himself, hit on an authentic form of meaninglessness. Cut off from roots and skeptical of society, his characters believe...