Word: realistes
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...only two, both fantasies, seem to have been brewed in the same kettle. The longest story, A Family Matter, has everything needed to make a full-length novel, but in its 44 pages it tells a good deal more than most novels about family life. A snappish, unblinkered realist comes to visit his three sons, all married and none of them fond of the old man. His avowed purpose is to make up his mind with which one of them he will live. From this homely, commonplace situation, Elliott contrives a remarkably interesting series of confrontations that range from...
...Realist Redmond knows that he may be the first to go after the integration turmoil passes. Much of his job involves dealing with the state legislature, which has already fired him. "If I can't perform that part of my job," says he, "we'll have to move...
...that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed pre-war production figures. Sizzle soap, sizzle...
...tradition. But when he was 18, he became disgusted with Mussolini's Italy, set out for Canada and then the U.S. He worked as a house painter, as an interpreter at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, then as a waiter while he studied art under the great realist John Sloan. In time, such museums as the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Worcester Museum of Fine Arts owned canvases by him, and Bosa himself became head of the advanced painting department of the Cleveland Institute...
...Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero to his subconscious...