Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum. The two children in "Light is Like Water" drown in a current of electric light. In "Tramontana," a Caribbean boy is driven mad by a wind that blows in the south of Spain...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Balamos" at 7 p.m. Taking thefilm's title from the language of the gypsies, thestory deals with the protagonist who is "balamos,"meaning condemned to wander forever. Whilesearching for the magic horse, he rides into theworld of the imagination, where the dimensions oftime and space lose their conventionalsignificance. Transformed into a vampire thatdrinks horse's blood, he travels in antiquity. Hebecomes a prophet and a slave before climbingMount Olympus. The exceptional poetic images erasethe line between reality and fantasy...
...Your new work may have been likened to Bharati Mukherjee's work--the female protagonist from the subcontinent who comes to the U.S. and confronts issues of her sexuality and freedom...
...proceeded to write constitute provisional and consummately artful answers to these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...
Author Anne Rice has been troubled by rumors -- which Warner Bros. denies -- that the forthcoming film of her Interview with the Vampire will fudge the protagonist's bisexuality. The Color Purple and Fried Green Tomatoes are just two films in which homosexual relationships in the novel were straightened out for the screen. Other cases in point...