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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

CLEA, by Lawrence Durrell. Last of a quartet of novels in which Durrell, one of the few real English stylists alive, examines the shifting nature of truth against the sultry background of old Alexandria and through the devious natures of the kind of odd cast of characters that only Durrell can assemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Village of the Damned. In one of the neatest little chillers since Peter Lorre went straight, an English town drops suddenly senseless, wakes to find its womenfolk unaccountably pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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