Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiction: the late James Agee for the bestselling novel, A Death in the Family (TIME...
Playwright Duürrenmatt can well afford his bucolic luxury. Almost unknown in the U.S. until The Visit (although one novel, The Judge and His Hangman, was published by Harpers in 1955, and earlier this year an off-Broadway group presented his Fools Are Passing Through), Duürrenmatt is one of the best-known and most often performed writers in mid-Europe. Last season The Visit alone had 213 performances on eleven different German stages...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Géerard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Younger generations-lost, silent, or beat-are presumed to share one quality: youth. After Long Silence, a first novel by Manhattan's 26-year-old Robert Gut-willig, is symptomatic of a recent fictional tendency to portray the yo.ung as prematurely aged and jaded. A scabrous episode early in Author Gutwillig's book suggests its Sagantiquated antics: "Males and females were naked to the waist. The couples seemed to be licking each other's shoulders, necks, and chests . . . Each couple had a little can with holes in the top-like a large salt cellar-and from time...
...this context it is clear that at least one reviewer is not very happy with either the fragments of William Palmer's novel "Coyahique," or Edgar de Bresson's story "Down There Where It's Beautiful." The fragments of the novel never achieve any coherence, nor do their baffling lack of focus suggest any very obvious truth about the South American revolution which they portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story...