Word: schulberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg. The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling; a novel largely and candidly modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME...
...Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg. The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling; a novel largely and candidly modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME...
...Schulberg has many virtues as a writer. His knowledge of locale, of his characters, is extensive. Seldom does he draw a picture of a place which cannot be envisioned. Seldom does he present dialogue which cannot be envisioned. Seldom does he present dialogue which cannot be hoard. He has a sense of humor which is lively and interesting, and an car for fine phrases which is always alert...
...Schulberg has undertaken a difficult task. Where he fails is in his characterization of the earlier author, for if we are to be moved by a tragic tale we must believe that Manloy Halliday was once a great author. To put this across, Halliday must do more than recall some wild weekends, his love of the twenties, fragments of the jazz...
...Schulberg has picked up pieces of an age which has great appeal today, but he fails to integrate these pieces into the novel which was intended. The dying author says, "Nothing fails like success." It is an interesting note, but just where the success was, we never know...