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...fiction in Horovitz's plays which contain large autobiographical sections. The most startling, in light of his non-existent Harvard career, is Act I, Scene 5 of a 1971 play entitled "Dr. Hero." The setting: a university board room with an admissions committee meeting in progress. Enter the protagonist, an unloved youth named Hero who will rise to the top using his pushy, arrogant, salesman-like personality. Hero is a college applicant, appearing before the admissions committee to be judged on a ludicrous basis--the ability to name ten Dickens's titles. Hero speaks...
...hopelessly narcissistic. In John Barth's story, Lost in the Funhouse, for example, the author interrupts to explain the narrative techniques of the short story while the tale is in progress. Barth then shows contempt for these forms and simultaneously complains that his story is getting nowhere. Like his protagonist and the other anti-novelists, he is lost in the funhouse...
...funny, wily, eccentric and inventive movie about dead ends and dubious dreams, opportunities lost and responsibilities evaded. Director-Writer Charles Eastman (best known previously as the author of the screenplay for Little Fans and Big Halsey) evokes, in the character of Vic, the kind of wary protagonist whose abdication of personal responsibility made anti-heroes out of Dean and Brando, Fonda and Hopper. The film builds to a crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses...
Script A: the classic American war novel. Becker introduces his protagonist Benny Beer, a New York tailor's son in a corporal's uniform, straggling alone across a World War II battlefield in Germany. Later, as Dr. Beer, Benny turns up in Korea, enduring 2½ years in a Chinese prison camp. Here Becker is at his most persuasive as storyteller and moralist...
Steve Benson, the protagonist in the brilliant The Duplex, once again serves as the focus of Bullins's work and as he skillfully juggles the novel's first and third person voices, Bullins leaves little doubt that he is Steve and that The Reluctant Rapist is his only slightly fictionalized autobiography. A picaresque tale of horror and beauty, failure and success, the novel begins with a street scene in Watts and in a series of flashbacks recalls Steve's--Bullins's life journey, a peregrination motivated by "the memory of the past, of his wasted years from where he came...