Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PLACE WITHOUT TWILIGHT, by Peter S. Feibleman. Another first novel and one that makes a daring foray into uncertain ground. White Author Feibleman deals with a New Orleans Negro family that is more oppressed by black ignorance than by white prejudice. His success is startling, though not total...
LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov. The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written. Simply as the story of a perverted sexual adventure, it is shocking. As an exploration of the secret places of the heart, mind and spirit, ruled by terrible private devils, it moves beyond shock into compassion...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, by Boris Pasternak. The man who won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature was not allowed to accept it, but he produced the most remarkable novel to come out of Russia since the Revolution-a sprawling, lyrical, religious reaffirmation of man's right to be free and to be himself...
...Roger Vailland. In the Italian town of Porto Manacore, the main sports seem to be sex and formalized verbal abuse. Author Vailland won France's Prix Goncourt with this slick, cynical and true-ringing novel of small-town hunger-for women, for power, for land and money...
CHILD OF OUR TIME, by Michel del Castillo. A harrowing, terribly unsophisticated testimony to man's capacity for inhumanity, and a minor masterpiece of its kind. Written as a novel, it reads more like the bitter, autobiographical odyssey of the boy who, at three, saw corpses on the streets of Madrid, experienced the concentration camp's life-in-death during the '30s and '40s, survived the indifference of his own parents, and could still perceive the good in life...