Word: novelized
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...fiction writer is a man you've probably never heard of. With over six million books in print, Polish author Stanislaw Lem is also the most critically-acclaimed science fiction writer throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union--nevertheless, his name remains a mystery to most American readers. His novels, short stories, plays, reviews and scientific treatises have been translated into nearly thirty languages, but only in the last five years have many of his works become available in English. The Chain of Chance, Lem's most recent novel, continues the strain of cosmic pessimism that pervades his thirty previous...
Camus's Last Judgment In your review of the biography of Al bert Camus [March 19] you stated that one sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work...
...source of the author's resentment, nor the extent of his knowledge about the state, its people or its culture. But his comments inflict on readers a well-worn stereotype that bears little resemblance to the complex reality of Texas. If Gent's book really is "more a novel of Texas society" than something else, there is, of course, more to Texas than Texas society, or "po' boys at play in the fields (and beds) of the energy lords." And there is more to Texas than "seamy politicians," "oil and gas," "Dallas Cowboys," of "Thermopylae-like heroism." The problem...
DIED. Jean Stafford, 63, caustic lady of letters whose tautly structured short stories won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...
...voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz's central character, Paul Kramer, renders his past imperfect with a poignancy that gives the novel a solid grounding. His Memorex...