Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since his first novel, The Tin Drum, exploded into international bestsellerdom in 1963, Gunter Grass has pursued two parallel careers. He continued to write fiction (Dog Years, Local Anaesthetic, The Flounder), as well as plays and poetry, that enhanced his worldwide reputation. He also plunged energetically into politics, working on behalf of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, speaking out against the superpower arms race, and hectoring with particular fervor the Western democracies. Planners of literary conferences learned that one sure way to garner attention was to snare Grass as a participant. He could, at the very least...
...doubt the author's devotion to both literature and crusades, but Grass, 59, seems to be growing impatient with keeping the two activities separate. Witness The Rat, a novel in which imaginative extravagance is yoked to a relentless jeremiad about the despoliation of the earth. The result is a struggle between an art that teases and an argument that harangues. The loser, hands down...
...energetic in their morality. But such works require time and space to grow properly. Compression is an invitation to contrivance, forced coincidence and melodrama. And Director-Adapter-Producer Berri (The Two of Us) refused to reduce this film to that level. Using L'Eau des Collines, a two-volume novel by Marcel Pagnol (which was itself a reworking of material the author used in a commercially failed film), Berri pursued the rights to a book he loved for six years before Pagnol's widow relented to him. Determined . to make a separate film of each portion of the novel simultaneously...
...spaciousness of Berri's style is, of course, old-fashioned, so much so that it strikes us with the force of something new. But its most important function is to link his work with two currently disused narrative traditions. One is that of the naturalistic novel, which insists on locating characters within a detailed rendering of their world, forcing the reader to recognize that the seemingly minor incidents of life reveal the workings of vast, elemental forces. The other, astonishingly enough, is Greek drama, in which the psychological intimacy among characters is irrelevant, since their destinies are determined...
...been a lawyer in his hometown, working for eight years in the U.S. Attorney's office and then as a partner in a private firm. He has also, like thousands of others among the gainfully employed, written in his spare time. Eventually he completed his first novel. Unlike most such manuscripts, however, his did not meet with indifference and rejection; in fact, publishers competed eagerly to buy the book. Turow finally accepted $200,000 from a house whose reputation he admired. Next a book club bought in. Then came $1 million for screen rights, with a paperback sale still pending...