Word: zola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreiser's importance to the American novel lay in what seemed to be his "social realism." He imagined himself an American Zola, and set out to describe the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous...
Genet, Burroughs and other chroniclers of fagotry and fellatio are different from the realists of sex like Zola, the sentimentalists of sex like D. H. Lawrence, the poetic demons of sex like Baudelaire. They are different from the good old-fashioned pornographers like Fanny Hill's Cleland or the masters of bawdry from Ovid to Aretino, Rabelais, Boccaccio and (in an off moment) Mark Twain. However unconventional, these writers found delight in sex; however critical of human folly, they were partisans of mankind. The new immoralists attack not only society but man and sex itself. Their writings...
...married a dancer. Perhaps that's why I insisted upon it." Her best friend had died when she was twelve, and she retreated into a world of books. "I read many books far too soon," she says. "They made me sick with terror and fascination. I read Zola when...
...middleaged, Mineola, L.I., novelist packs himself, his wife and his three children off to the dolce vita country in hopes of discovering the enriched goodness that graced the prose-and-life styles of Zola and Dostoevsky, apparently because they never had to attend the P.T.A. The wife is soon marking time with an Italian movie director, and the writer dillydallies with a local marchesa who wickedly dots her toes with perfume. At the moment of carnal truth, husband flashes his children's photographs like an FBI agent making an arrest, and leaves, virtus intacta...
...generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...