Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...subsoil of the mind, it owes much to Joyce and Proust, and in its meticulous focusing on reality it often achieves unreal effects-just as a section of skin under a microscope does not look like skin but like a lunar landscape. Despite frequent stretches of dullness, the New Realist writers are sometimes fascinating because they have moved away from the facile psychology and sociology that filled so much fiction in the '30s and '40s; their characters seem to float through the vast emptiness of society like planets close to collision...
...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...
...story of the deterioration of a French provincial family, as an old aunt lies dying, is more intricate and less suited to Simon's techniques. Parts of the book are brilliant-notably the scenes of bickering between the dying woman's brother and sister-in-law. Realist Simon forces the reader to note precisely the tics and twitches of decaying minds, and to feel the texture of withering flesh. But something is lost when Simon's subject is less elemental than death. The reader never really learns what is happening to the book's narrator...
...best, and one of the most eccentric, of France's New Realist writers is Claude Simon, author of the powerful and murky novel, The Wind (TIME, April 13). His current book is a little less powerful and somewhat more murky. Author Simon's moody, fitful sentences blow on for a thousand words or so before subsiding. He qualifies each thought, hedges each qualification, follows divergent ideas out of sight through cat's cradles of parentheses and dashes. He is as fond as Faulkner of the present participle. When it seems that he must stop, affix a period...