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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe eccentric genius Glenn Gould is one of the guiding muses in Don DeLillo's contemplative 2004 essay, "Counterpoint: Three Films, a Book, and an Old Photograph." Gould first earned international acclaim in the...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe 1964 collection Introduction 2: Stories by New Writers contains three short stories by Tom Stoppard. Published some two years before the near simultaneous publication of his only novel, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn Banville's decision to adapt Heinrich von Kleist's plays, Der zerbrochne Krug (1811), Amphitryon (1807), and Penthesilea (1808), as The Broken Jug (1994), God's Gift (2000), and Love in the Wars (2005),...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedal-Ma'arri, Abu l-'Ala. The Epistle of Forgiveness, Volume II: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners. Trans, and eds. Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler. New York University Press, 2014. Cloth: $35.00. (F/NF)...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhile many of our more experimental contemporary novelists have written occasional plays, these plays have typically received relatively little critical attention from academics who study their novels. Conversely, many...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this essay, I compare the delineations of time in Samuel Beckett's novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable with his mimes Act Without Words I and II to postulate that Beckett's conception of time may be dual; that is,...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Under the circumstances, I would just as soon be Jewish." (Philip Roth, "Buried Again") The Jewish-American author Philip Roth celebrated his 80th birthday, his first since his retirement, in a lavish ceremony at...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAcclaimed African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is best known as the author of experimental and metatheatrical plays about history and the malleability of racial identity, including among others The America Play...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAcross the span of his novels--which he considered a single project, the "Legend of Duluoz"--Jack Kerouac daringly dramatizes America's physical and spiritual landscape. His characters perform across the continent,...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThough Alasdair Gray is best known as an artist and a novelist--a large part of his literary corpus was published in the eighties and nineties following the success of his Scottish epic Lanark (1981)--it was his...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Welsh says that writing a play is a lot easier than writing a novel. After enduring this one, I felt like borrowing one of his characters' trademark aphorisms. **** off, you @@@@." (Benedict Nightingale, on You'll...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn June, 2014, a few weeks after his eightieth birthday, Alan Bennett, the celebrated playwright and memoirist, published what he called a "sermon" in The London Review of Books. First delivered as a talk in an...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there. Perhaps in an ambulance, certainly a vehicle of some kind. I was helped. I'd never have got there alone" (3). (1) Thus begins Molloy,...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe adjective "Pinteresque," first used in 1960, describes a wide variety of recurring themes in Pinter's plays having to do with "implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent...