Word: novella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared in the Post in 1942, but it reads like a libretto to the famous novella of the same name that he included in Go Down, Moses later that year...
Coppola's first instincts were correct: there was a fine idea for a movie here. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Coppola wanted to portray America's Viet Nam adventure as a literal and metaphysical journey into madness. The literal journey is taken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), an officer who is commanded to travel upriver from Saigon to Cambodia. His mission is to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once exemplary Green Beret who has now gone crazy and set up a kingdom of murder in the darkest jungle. "There...
...professor, is a compulsive storyteller, and in The Vicar of Christ he tells three tales that could have made books in themselves. Part 1, reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant, is a crisp, realistic novella. Part 2, narrated in the fastidious accents of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, makes the arcane milieu of the Nine Old Men for once intelligible. Part 3 is the center of the novel. Its narrator, Ugo Cardinal Galeotti, is an urbane Vatican veteran who enjoys fine wine and good...
...their actions, spectators stormed the stage when the drama was produced in Frankfurt. Handke's reputation in America is altogether more modest and is chiefly based on four novels that are less strident than his plays but every bit as puzzling and unsettling. The Left-Handed Woman, a novella, will provoke more admiration and head scratching...
Smilansky was a Haganah intelligence officer in that war, and the fictional village of Hirbet Hiza was patterned after a real community where he witnessed similar events. The novella thus deals with a dark side of history that many Israelis would prefer to forget. One of the country's best-known authors, Amos Elon (The Israelis: Founders and Sons), describes Smilansky's work as "perhaps the most conscience-stricken, deliberately guilt-ridden piece of contemporary Israeli literature." Hirbet Hiza is required reading in Israeli high schools and has been translated into Arabic. Last week, however, when Israel...