Word: novella
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Philip Roth first came to national attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus...
...Minoustchine) that has consistently published very fine, full color, hardcover literary adaptations by top comix artists. In the past few months they have produced three exceptionally well-done works: "The Yellow Jar," based on Japanese folk tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, and an adaptation of Marcel Proust's immense "Remembrance of Things Past...
...beauty is the adaptation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (64pp.; $15.95) by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky, with art by Mattotti. Of the three adaptations covered here, this one takes the most liberties with the original material. Organized more like a mystery, R. L. Stevenson's original 1886 novella kept Dr. Jekyll's secret until two-thirds through the book. No longer a mystery to anyone, Mattotti and Kramsky wisely focus instead on Jekyll's motivations in releasing the nefarious Hyde. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when...
...expulsion, rape and the bombing war has to be broken by democratic and neutral historians who take a balanced view," he argues. The question of German victimhood has been much-discussed all year. This past spring, Nobel prizewinning novelist Günter Grass published Im Krebsgang (Crab Walk), a novella about the millions who perished on the eastern front and in particular the 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea of the Wilhelm Gustloff, when as many as 9,000 lives were lost. The debate about the novel soon centered on the political correctness of dealing in literary form with...
More than a century after Heart of Darkness was first published, Joseph Conrad's haunting novella continues to cast an immense shadow. His short masterpiece has spawned an endless stream of literary guides, dramatizations, even CDs such as Heart of Darkness by the aptly named Conrad Herwig Quintet. So it's no surprise to find novelist Daniel Mason also falling under Conrad's intoxicating spell. Mason's debut novel The Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous...