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...Sartre and Camus, but Le Clézio has never been easy to classify. Like the writers of the nouveau roman, he struggles with language itself and the ways contemporary life have drained it of meaning; he has often stated that his favorite novelists are James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson. Le proces-verbal was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot, and Le Clézio has been in the front rank of French literature ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Novelist Le Clézio: A Nobel Surprise | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

JUDE LAW to play Watson to ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'S Holmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...such a loan, the receiving company should be barred from granting executive bonuses or paying dividends to investors until the loan (and interest) is repaid. This would infuse the needed money into the system and free up credit markets. But in the long run, it would cost taxpayers nothing. Robert P. Hebbel, North Oaks, Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...deliberately destroyed education.' RAYMOND MAJONGWE, of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, after President Robert Mugabe canceled the rest of the school year, citing violence and hyperinflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying explanation for good fiction that incorporates both psychological insight and aesthetics.The books in his study serve as examples and lessons. Robert McCloskey’s beloved children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings” offers one of the “purest examples of irony” through its use of free indirect style. The same technique also allows the fiction reader to inhabit a young girl?...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'How Fiction Works' Works Just Fine, Thank You | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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