Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...
Joseph Heller gets more miles per novel than any other American-made author. Consider the phenomenal efficiency of Catch-22, a book that continues to run on one joke. It is the old switcheroo, best expressed by Doc Daneeka when he tells Yossarian "that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have...
Clotel was the first Afro-American novel in which what we may call the "American contradiction" was first expressed through a literary character. More importantly, in this novel we saw the grandiloquent gesture vs. the monumental emptiness of America's action. Yet one had to wait until the end of the century to see this question posed in fuller novelistic terms. For it was in his work The Marrow of Tradition that Charles Chestnutt suggested that ingrained racism--that man-hating ideology which lay at the very vital of the national character--was poisoning the nature of national life...
...novel is full of descriptive passages of up-state winters, seasonal changes which echo emotional changes in Dubin. Long desolate winters filled with blizzards and despair are followed by short ecstatic springs filled with hope, and reunions with Fanny...
Other dichotomies haunt Dubin's life. He is Jewish; his wife is a WASP. He is a city boy transplanted to the country, middle-aged and in love with youth, an orderly soul fighting chaos. The novel is one long standoff between these competing forces, and in the end there is no resolution...