Word: novelled
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Recognized as the father of the modern Arab novel, Mahfouz is frequently compared with such 19th century social realists as Dickens and Balzac. In nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, he has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the "creation of a new Egyptian style" that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter...
...also insists that her views are not the result of the close friendships she has formed with writers in exile from Communism, including Czeslaw Milosz of Poland and Joseph Brodsky of the Soviet Union, both Nobel laureates. But their situation is never far from her thoughts. Her first novel in nearly a quarter-century, which she has almost completed and calls The Western Half, is about Polish and Soviet emigres in Paris, New York and Midwestern academe...
...ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and energy -- of a Victorian moralist, she' s readying a book on aids, finishing a novel, narrating a documentary. "I love to go faster," she says...
...become the darling of what might be called the Grecian Urn School of literary critics ("Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"). Brodkey's enormous reputation does not stem from his first book, a collection of nine short stories published back in 1957, but from a novel, Party of Animals, that he famously refuses to finish. To be sure, Brodkey's short fiction has occasionally appeared in magazines over the intervening decades. But it is his lonely struggle to produce a big book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled...
...novel leaves one with the distinct impression that Allende, who has struggled in all her novels to sort out conflicts between individuals and politics, has failed to resolve this tension...