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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Paola's photographs "adorn the book," quite a feat for a fictional character and no doubt a surprise to photographer David Robinson.) All is fine and dandy between the two, as uncovered in some badly written bedroom scenes, until Paola must leave Rome, where most of the novel is set, for the Mideast. There, she is to photograph the latest Arab-Israeli conflict (more Death...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Muddled ghosts | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Burgess manages to tie all the sprawling strands together in the last few chapters of the novel; by then, however, the aimless nature of the book has defeated the reader. Burgess' merry-go-round theory--keep the plot moving, change the characters--leaves Beard's Roman Women without much in the way of continuity except the grinning Grim Reaper...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Muddled ghosts | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...Hundred Years, a kernel of reality lies in the Patriarch's story. Garcia Marquez says that he learned everything he could about actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Linked to the Patriarch's slipping are the tropics continually decaying: dusty palms, the band playing on Sundays in the park, the abandoned American cruiser rusting at its dock. The brilliant fantasy of Garcia Marquez's details exorcizes tropical nostalgia, and makes The Autumn of the Patriarch the rarest novel to appear this year...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...writing is too evanescent for condensation into one ideology or another. For the essence of Miller's style lies in his disinclination to impose meaning or authorial will on the people and experiences of his books. It doesn't seem far fetched to suggest that he approaches a novel rather in the way that Virginia Woolf explained it should be done in her essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truthfully, at any rate | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

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