Word: novels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrilla invasion of Zaïre. Each has had special causes, but the potential will exist for many more such explosions until the 3 billion or so citizens of LDCs can see some prospect for improvement in their lives. A few years ago, a French author wrote a futuristic novel in which the world's hungry banded together in a kind of vengeful crusade and descended on the industrialized world. One need not take that vision literally to recognize the seriousness of the threat...
...itself; she seemed to have cross-filed and indexed everything Proust had done or said. At one point, she told Curtiss, the master had been thrilled by a letter from a "M. Henri Jammes." Jammes -Henry James-had written that he thought Swann 's Way the greatest French novel since the Charterhouse of Parma, but feared that Proust, like Stendhal, would never be recognized in his lifetime...
Doom hangs on this grandly hewn novel like fog on the Cliffs of Moher. Colman Brady, a Tipperary bridegroom, waiting for the dawn of his wedding day. wakes his brother and sister for a nocturnal trek. Their goal is "a rock shadow over the village, at once enchanting and threatening"-one of those mysterious neolithic monuments that mark the fringes of Western Europe, ancient altars still defying the new Christian God. Chilled, the two siblings retreat. Brady greets the sun alone with exhilarated hope. It is a false dawn. A chill grips Brady's life for four decades...
Maude Coffin Pratt, focal point of Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...
Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...