Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he lived to 1961, Darwin was patently a 19th century figure whose values are closer to those espoused at the Battle of Waterloo than to those of the present. The cult of Darwinia surrounding his personal escapades almost transforms him into a character out of a P.G. Wodehouse novel. He played in the 1921 British Amateur Championship and eliminated the last American contender in the field. That same night, Darwin was accosted on a lonely street by a mysterious stranger who bellowed, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
Robert Penn Warren is one of the few distinguished literary men who can aim a novel at the gut and not offend the head. The reason seems to be that even in the age of the Uncertainty Principle and culture fracture, Warren has not lost his sense of life as a sustained drama. The classical Western values that have linked his fiction, poetry and criticism for nearly 50 years are largely responsible. He writes novels with beginnings, middles and ends. People are born, come of age, love, suffer loss, infirmity and death in much the same way people always have...
...Warren's strengths as a fiction writer-and some of his weaknesses-can be found in A Place to Come To, his tenth novel. At 72 the author retains his passion for the act of fiction and his faith that the English language can still make exciting sense of the world. Yet a recitation of the novel's bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself...
...officials have endless meetings and conferences and appointments. The staffers debate which color pen is appropriate for which report. The secretaries discuss where to file the reports. If someone is sick the flow of work goes on to all appearances unchanged around the empty desk. To disregard a novel as part of a fringe genre because it considered the impact of technology would be to ignore a fact of life. Lem extrapolates to a nightmarish future to write the problems large. A realistic novel would read like Joseph Heller's Something Happened, which takes incredible patience to finish--exaggeration...
Sensible Shoes. In effect, Lacey has treated Elizabeth as a minor character in a Jane Austen novel. An "unassuming mother of four" who dotes on a "quiet life in the country surrounded by horses and dogs," she tramps over for tea in her sensible shoes and serves modestly to swell a scene or two, mostly by making other people look brilliant. But how to turn her into a heroine...