Word: novellas
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...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...
...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...
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...
...Frank Novella San Jose, Calif...