The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary "case" to be reprimanded as much as an author to be read, and his new novel,….
We can grant Leavis his literary case, but in doing so we are agreeing to eviscerate the morally serious, historically judicious and passionately just George Eliot.
The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary "case" to be reprimanded as much as an author to be read, and his new novel, "Soumission," or "Submission," shows why.
Given this history, the stock phrases about a book having been "eagerly awaited" or its publication being "a major literary event" are in this case understatements.
David Loogan, the personable amateur sleuth in Harry Dolan's first crime novel, "Bad Things Happen," finds himself entangled in another literary murder case in VERY BAD MEN (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $25.95).
And even book-lovers may find musty papers harder to appreciate than, say, art by Titian (Italian) or van Dyck (Flemish), whose works have also been "saved" under this scheme.In any case, literary protectionism may have passed its peak.
The first volume, The Bad Beginning (1999), related the travails of three orphaned siblings; it also acquainted readers with Handler's fondness for naming some characters after past literary luminaries in this case, Klaus, Sunny, and Violet Baudelaire.
Fans of Atkinson's novels like "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," which won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year, and her two previous literary detective novels, "Case Histories" and "One Good Turn," both featuring the rugged yet sensitive Brodie, can expect "When Will There Be Good News?" to follow standard procedure.
Lewis [42] considers that iterative triangulation employs systematic iterations between literary review, interviews, case evidence, and intuition.
Best case: Literary pedigree, ace cast and auteur director elevate pulpy material into festival sensation.
"Literary," in the case of a book about a marriage gone violently rancid, suggests that Flynn wasn't only concerned with what happens in the story; she was interested in the nuances of the characters' inner lives, too.
