The next year Mailer published both "The Armies of the Night," his novelistic work of nonfiction about the march, and "Miami and the Siege of Chicago," his reported novel about the 1968 Democratic and Republican conventions.
Part of the achievement of its "shaped chaos" is that Lucinde presents, within the form of a novelistic work itself, a romantic 'contest' of competing novelistic possibilities (see, for example, the interpretation of the famous chapter on the "Allegory of Impudence" in Behler 1993).
It's a novelistic video work supposedly about a film crew making a piece about a suicide bomber.
The novelistic, psychological work of explaining why evil people are evil gets very little energy from him.
Barrios's personal experiences played an important part in all these novels, as well as in his other works: Páginas de un pobre diablo (1923; "Pages from a Poor Devil"), a series of autobiographical sketches; Tamarugal (1944), a novel about life in the northern mining region of Chile and Loss hombres del hombre (1950; "Men Within Man"), a novelistic study in human psychology.
The lyrical, novelistic later works in this box include "Early Spring," a romantic drama about adultery and domestic discord among co-workers in a large urban company, and Ozu's visually revelatory "Equinox Flower," his first color film, a 1958 family story about a young woman's rejection of an arranged marriage.
Dave Eggers's acclaimed novelistic memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," is loaded with television references, including an account of his failed audition for MTV's "Real World".
The result is a rich brew that includes hanging, Handel, idealism and infanticide; and only a certain breathlessness betrays the work's novelistic origins.
As Erik Larson, author of "The Devil in the White City," points out at the start of "In the Garden of Beasts," by far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic history, nobody named Dodd was the president's first choice.
His bleak humor, hauntingly affectless narrator and methodical expansion on his theme make "Remainder" more than an entertaining brain-teaser: it's a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is funny.
Mr. Stewart, who brings his "Carol" to Broadway for the fourth time with this one-week run, gives full weight to the story's familiar, pious credo, "God bless us, every one!" But he also illuminates an unstated message that has far older roots, "Seize the day!" In so doing he restores the novelistic richness to a work that has repeatedly been distilled into sugary simplicity.
