Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pritchett's best-known novel is "Mr. Beluncle," first published in 1951, and his famous short stories include "The Fly in the Ointment," and "The Saint...
WHEN THE GREAT English actor David Garrick finished his first performance on the English stage, another actor responded to Garrick's novel, naturalistic style by remarking. "If this young fellow be right, then we have been all wrong." As it happened, Garrick was right, and his success gradually became recognized as a revolution in the acting profession. Such sudden, dramatic breaks with accepted beliefs are the subject of I. Bernard Cohen's Revolutions in Science...
...important to the people of Latin America squarely without becoming potential or losing its special beauty, which distinguished Isabel Allende and The House of the Sports from authors like Marquez who have maintained a barrier between their prose and their politics. By breaking the barrier. Allende has produced a novel important for both is timing and its grace...
...fourth book Robert Ward has attempted to update a half-forgotten relic of the '30s: the proletarian novel, with its idealized workers and smokestack suburbs. Ward's contemporary laborers are not moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...
...even wunderkinder can make false starts. For his second effort at Kennedy Center -- and his first as director -- Sellars has fashioned a dazzlingly original production of The Count of Monte Cristo. Exhuming this melodramatic war-horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns...