Word: unconvincingness
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This is what the reader sees at the outset through the author's acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine...
Rosalie Phillips is too forced in her presentation of The Mother. You can almost see her preparing each line before she delivers it to produce the "maximum effect." And while Mike Owens paces around and wrings his hands, he just doesn't seem to believe in what he's doing...
Finally the limousine appears in Trieste at the beginning of World War II, bought by a cranky American millionairess (Ingrid Bergman) who heads for the Yugoslav border spouting kind words about Hitler, though she cannot abide Roosevelt or Reds. Thanks to the rebel partisan (Omar Sharif) stowed away in her...
Besides, Tolstoy did not suffer from the pathetic phallacy according to which all existence revolves around sex. Many authors today treat sex the way Marxists treat economics; they see it at the root of everything, and daydream about sexual triumph the way revolutionary writers daydream about power. Thus in the...
Better writers than Gilbert have tried and failed to create the big good novel about American business. Stereotyped characters are only a part of the problem. The real obstacle is that novelists rarely know corporation life. They have trouble giving their characters meaningful work to do at their jobs. They...