Word: novella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaker is never identified, but his words have moved Israeli readers ever since the appearance in 1949 of a novella called The Tale of Hirbet Hiza. The story, by now an Israeli classic, deals with the cruel behavior of a Haganah unit ordered to drive Arab inhabitants out of their village in Palestine during the war of independence. Written by Yizhar Smilansky under the pen name S. Yizhar, the story focuses on a young soldier's wrenching self-doubt as he obeys the brutal command to clean out Hirbet Hiza...
...Frank Novella San Jose, Calif...
...reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make a pact. Richard will shoot Henry's wife Rachel (Novella Nelson), and Henry will dispatch Richard's wife Julie (Margaret Ladd...
Last year. All the President's Men; this year, all the abbess's nuns. Nasty Habits, adapted from Muriel Spark's 1974 novella The Abbess of Crewe, uses the goings-on at a Roman Catholic abbey outside Philadelphia to burlesque the Watergate affair...
...course of true love never did run smooth," wrote the old Bard, and Eric Rohmer's adaptation of Heinrich von Kliest's 1808 novella in The Marquise of O shows just how contorted that path can get. A young marquise, fleeing from an invading army, is set upon by four enemy troops determined to appropriate the spoils of war. Suddenly a figure in white leaps down from an overhanging bluff, saving the young marquise's honor and perhaps her life. The savior takes the distraught marquise to safety and receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there...