Word: plotless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tropic of Cancer was a dizzying personal record of sexual adventure, straycat poverty and street wanderings in Paris, formless and plotless in any classical sense, savagely anti-artistic. Its end-of-the-rope eloquence was, however, apprentice work compared with Tropic of Capricorn, which deals with Miller's jobholding and job-avoiding life in Manhattan and Brooklyn before he went to Paris. Written in a naked language not of literature but of a man's talking, unquotable except by the page, Tropic of Capricorn would mean plenty to countless men-in-the-street. The "dithyrambic prose" which excited...
Moment in Peking, Lin Yutang's first novel, is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with almost Basic English simplicity. Crammed with incident, but plotless, Moment in Peking chronicles the history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese families, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when its heroine, ten-year-old Mulan, is kidnapped by soldiers, to New Year's, 1938, when she joins the epic flight of 40,000,000 high-spirited refugees into China's vast interior...
...readers a large lump in their throats. That simple, moving story described the redemption of a forgotten girl through the loving sympathy of a good man. The Heroes, slighter and non-lump-raising, describes the redemption of a forgotten man through the loving sympathy of a good girl. A plotless, subdued story it is laid in a New England Soldiers' Home, the apathy of whose inmates casts a pall over the novel...
...schools in Germany and London, is a governess, then secretary to a firm of literary dentists, who introduce her to their London intellectual set. When she writes about the way sunlight falls across a room, about the mannerisms of the minor characters who drift in & out of the plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little head. Every critical experience...
African Holiday. In 1935 Harry C. Pearson, a onetime Chicago insurance-man, took his wife and camera to Central Africa, trekked 11,000 miles through the jungle. A plotless safari, the Pearson film record lavishes hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall...