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Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked,” discussed his career since writing the best-selling novel at a dinner discussion in Lowell House Junior Common Room last night. The event was organized by Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters (BGLTS) tutors in the House. Maguire, a gay novelist, has written a number of revisionist retellings of children’s stories. “Wicked” is a take on the L. Frank Baum classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Some of the initial reviews...
...fairy tale, more or less, built on archetypal stock characters and a simplistic, familiar plot. And if readers—particularly readers who go to school with her—associate the real Kaavya Viswanathan with the caricature she has created in Opal Mehta, the shadow of her novel may prove to be a hard one to overcome...
...struggle has already begun—last month, Viswanathan “firmly” told the Boston Globe that the novel is not an autobiography, and that Opal is nothing more than a fictional character...
...what’s this about madness, cruelty, and imperialism in this well-adjusted sophomore’s novel, then? Well, seriously, it’s all there! No spoilers, but no harm in revealing a few emblematic details of Opal’s weird, scary life: her parents, for starters, are wildly irrational and possibly schizophrenic, encouraging their daughter to drink, wear short skirts, and seduce a boy who wants to be known as the conservative face of Woodcliff High. Throughout the book, Opal’s father clownishly apes hip-hop slang and says things like...
Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: As for books, there were, on the philosophical side, the writings of Kant, and on the literary side, the great novel by Roger Martin du Gard, “Les Thibault” (about Europe and the First World War), and the plays and novels of Albert Camus, especially “The Plague.” Also, later, Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984” and Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” and Ionesco?...