Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality.
The author of five feature films and several shorts, he uses a distinctive blend of fiction, documentary and essayistic speculation to analyze and criticize his country's complex national identity -- a crazy quilt of warring classes, ethnicities and economic zones.
In such a case, we might be reasonably advised to go back and try to expand our moral sympathies, keeping in mind that a distinctive pleasure of fiction is the opportunity to experience the world from the point of view of people unlike ourselves.
He works in a distinctive mode: science-fiction with overtones of transcendence.
He was one of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry – not just Irish fiction and poetry.
April 13 , 1940Nice, France Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, (born April 13 , 1940 Nice, France) French author known for his intricate, seductive fiction and distinctive works of nonfiction that mediated between the past and the present, juxtaposing the modern world with a primordial landscape of ambiguity and mystery.
'Writing... had been no more than a pretext,' says the narrator of his new novel, The Book of Illusions, 'an odd form of medicine that I had swallowed every day for over a year on the off chance that it would dull the pain inside me.' It is this luxurious melancholy which makes Auster's fiction so distinctive among his American contemporaries.
In the decades since they were written, Rumer Godden's India novels have floated in and out of fashion, yet whatever tidal shifts have affected tastes in fiction, these distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal.
Christopher Peacocke (Peacocke 1999, p. 154) charges Rosen's modal fictionalist with "fetishism" unless the fictionalist can say what is so distinctive about the particular fiction chosen.
Critics would later call the novel "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction.
