Word: writers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pickpocket presents the story of a young would be writer named Michel, who, for motives which are never clear to him, becomes a petty thief. Through repeated series of close shots, Bresson chronicles the man's early fumbling attempts, his education in criminal technique, and finally his successive successful efforts in relieving other men of their valuables. Despite the efforts of a friend and an interested police inspector to deter him and prevent his being imprisoned, Michel purposely persists and in the end is caught by a detective who had set himself up as a foil...
...Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half sister and half brother by the finest living writer of English fiction...
...confirm his suspicion, Martha's employer and sometimes lover, a leftist writer by the name of Mark Coldridge, retreats to his study, which he wallpapers with world maps on which various colored markers denote War, Famine, Riots, Poverty, Prisons, "like medieval Humours...
...working and thinking time, he was often evasive and devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...
Lerner's account of the visit to the 'Snooze' is good. It should be. He served as Executive Editor of the CRIMSON during 1967-68, and is now a writer for the village voice...