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...even separated from the subject of “Wizard of the Crow” by the width of a planet, a span of 22 years, and a great deal of allegory, Thiong’o stays true to Africa and to the African language, Gikuyu, in which the novel was written. Thiong’o’s latest book, written in the African oral storytelling tradition, tackles modern Africa, deftly navigating the way in which its world has been turned upside-down in the 20th century. The 2006 novel is set in the Republic of Aburiria, a fictional...
Alain Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman, a novel without coherent plot, characters, chapters or, at times, punctuation, began a literary movement in the 1950s that influenced a generation of French writers. Author of 10 novels, he also made several films that bordered on the pornographic. Although he was named one of the 40 "immortals" of the Acadmie Franaise--custodians of the French language and cultural patrimony--Robbe-Grillet perplexed and scandalized readers with his avant-garde storytelling. His last work, Un Roman Sentimental, was derided by some critics as obscene when it came out last year, but Robbe...
...century ago, Upton Sinclair was appalled by the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago. His novel, The Jungle, drew the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880. and led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, mandating federal inspections of slaughterhouses. In 1958, this law formed the basis for the Humane Slaughter Act—a law with popular support so strong that President Dwight Eisenhower remarked, “if I went by mail, I’d think no one was interested in anything but humane slaughter...
...Being Here” shows any promise, and they quickly fade away when he returns to his standard, unsuccessful formula of poorly channeling better musicians. Hopefully Collett will soon be making use of the other eighteen members of Broken Social Scene. Maybe then he’ll create something novel...
...Imre Kertész is so remarkable that, at times, it threatens to overshadow any story he could invent. Deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14, he survived both the Holocaust and the Hungarian Stalinist regime to become a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novel “Fatelessness” about his experiences in the concentration camps only to have it refused, in 1975, by one of two publishing houses in Hungary on the grounds that it was “anti-Semitic.” When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...