Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculates that the 1919 Series, which gamblers paid the favored White Sox to throw, was a topic that the two literary figures must have discussed together. Even more, he says, Ring's feelings must have inspired Fitzgerald to use that series "As yet another symbol of corruption in a novel filled with such symbols," in The Great Gatsby...
...reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...
...thing to challenge this belief and quite another to write a novel showing it to be false. Authors who try generally find themselves accused of going soft, of frivolously aping the Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous...
...Henry James before him, Fowles has created rarefied creatures free enough to take on the toughest question that life offers: How to live? In suggesting that today's seemingly infinite variety of choices need not produce a catatonic or nauseated antihero, Fowles has created both a startlingly provocative novel and a courageous act of willed humanity...
...children sing a song that provides the key to his past. The refrain, "Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone/ Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home,"tells the story of an ancestor's mythical escape from slavery. For the reader, the song unlocks the richness of the novel. It is a book in which Morrison achieves her fifth stage- an artistic vision that encompasses both a private and a national heritage...