This theme — a writer's objectivity — is also explored in Calvino's novel Mr. Palomar, which explores if absolute objectivity is possible, or even agreeable.

Researchers Lynnette Porter and Barry Porter acknowledge the writer's familiarity with Mark Twain's novel Pudd ' nhead Wilson.

In his final novel, however, The Word of God, Disch got his revenge on Dick, with a story in which Dick is dead and living in Hell, unable to write because of writer's block.

Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular.

Their other appearances were in Partners in Crime, a 1929 collection of short stories ( each reminiscent of another writer's work ); N or M ?, a 1941 espionage novel ; By the Pricking of My Thumbs ( published in 1968 ); and Postern of Fate in 1973, the last novel Christie ever wrote ( although not the last to be published ).

He produced the 13-issue Pantheon for Lone Star Press and wrote a pair of short novels about the modern adventures of the hero Beowulf, and a fantasy novel Down the Mysterly River published by the Austin, Texas writer's collective, Clockwork Storybook, of which Willingham was a founding member.

* In Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, the main character Grady Tripp, a college English professor and author of two widely acclaimed novels, claims he does not believe in writer's block, even though he has not been able to finish a promised third novel after seven years.

The inconvenient fact that his major novel, Not of This time, Not of This Place, devotes elaborate attention to Wurzburg ( which is given the fictional name Weinburg ) is not allowed to trouble Gold's thesis of suppression, because the book is fiction, not poetry, and hence is thought somehow to belong to a different category in regard to the writer's relation to his early years.

The subject and the language of the novel, which were completely different from the writer's other works, resulted in its rejection for a long time by publishers, who doubted Traven's authorship ; the novel was also accused of being " trivial " and " pornographic ".

Although Mishima only visualizes three of the writer's novels by name, the film also uses segments from his autobiographical novel Confessions of a Mask.

The novel again covers the subject of death by cancer-the writer's aunt in this case is dying in hospital-as well as visits to rural Ireland.

Boyle's 1990 novel, East is East, the writer's colony, on the fictitious Georgia sea island of Tupelo ( near Darien ) is called Thanatopsis House.

Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian writer's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter.

Volkswagen Blues is a road novel, in the tradition of Jack Kerouac, about a writer who has adopted the pen-name Jack Waterman ( and, as the story begins, is experiencing a bout of writer's block ), which follows his search for his long-lost, rambling brother, Théo.

Tideland is the third published book by author Mitch Cullin, and is the third installment of the writer's Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age novel Whompyjawed and the novel-in-verse Branches.

Sawyer received a writer's reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council in 1993 in support of his writing the novel.

Samson Young ( Sam ), the unreliable narrator of the novel, is an American, a failed non-fiction writer with decades-long writer's block, and is slowly dying of some sort of terminal cancer.

After suffering from severe writer's block, he was helped by Mariano to write an action novel featuring a truck driver who is struck by lightning and gains precognition powers.

Bound as a double volume with another writer's novel, it sold 55, 000 copies, about a third of its print run.

Fellow crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing under the nom de plume of Francis Iles, reviewed the novel in the 6 December 1957 issue of The Guardian, in which he confessed to being disappointed with the work: " I have only pity for those poor souls who cannot enjoy the sprightly stories of Agatha Christie ; but though sprightliness is not the least of this remarkable writer's qualities, there is another that we look for in her, and that is detection: genuine, steady, logical detection, taking us step by step nearer to the heart of the mystery.

The story mocks the writer's process, a concept Huxley used in his novel Crome Yellow.

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

In the 1920s he started writing, but soon rejected the legendary novel, whose form and subject matter were supposed to manifest his ' worse ' and darker side of nature.

It was followed by the darker, less commercial The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family.

This darker, slower-paced, apocalyptic novel explores the pre-and post-war lives of some of the major characters in Catch-22, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Yossarian and tailgunner Sammy Singer.

In the sixth and final part ( chapter 32 on ) while remaining in the " present " time the novel takes a much darker turn and spends the remaining chapters focusing on the serious and brutal nature of war and life in general.

The girls are very well aware of their viewers and are complicit in their participation as ' suicidal exhibitionists ' and in this way the novel proves to be much darker than even the title suggests.

This final novel, titled Stopover: Tokyo ( a. k. a. Right You Are, Mr. Moto ) is a more conventional spy story and a somewhat darker tale than the earlier novels.

Chanslor's novel was a serious Western, and though it was turned into a comedy for the movie, the filmmakers retained some of the story's darker elements.

Reviewer Simon Heffer notes the plot of the original Roy Horniman novel was darker ( e. g., the murder of a child ) and differed in several respects.

A German musical stage show, " Der Glöckner von Notre Dame " ( 1999 ) derived from the Disney movie, restores some of the many of the darker elements of the story lost in the film ; Esmeralda dies at the end, Frollo is revealed to have once been a priest in his past ( akin to the novel, where he was an archdeacon ) and Frollo dies because Quasimodo throws him from the roof, rather than falling by accident.

Although he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre, Bradbury's books are consistently darker in mood and less playful both in style and language.

In Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy he references the spectre adjectivally, saying: " And at one point it was that a wier-wier, one of the solitary water-birds of this region, uttered its ouphe and barghest cry, flying from somewhere near into some darker recess within the woods.

Film incarnations tend to depict Rochefort as a far darker character than in the novel, and often extend his role.

In the first direct reference to the title of the novel, the action jumps to London and the exploits of Marco, a ghostwriter-cum-drummer, scraping out a living whilst barely avoiding the darker seductions of the capital.

The journalistic tag ' Chaga Saga ', playing on Aga Saga, resonates with the female protagonists of each novel, but McDonald's purposes were far darker than domestic romance allows.

While much of the novel shows Henry and Clare falling in love, the end is darker and " time travel becomes a means for representing arbitrariness, transience, plain bad luck ", according to The Boston Globes Judith Maas.

The tone of the novel is generally darker than that of the film, and in the novel Debbie and her best friend Sue, who join the surfer gang, are shown to be much more willing participants in activities than they are in the film.

The appearance of Garet Jax in Dark Wraith of Shannara is much different than it is described in The Wishsong of Shannara -- in that novel, he has almost white hair and flint gray eyes, but in Dark Wraith, he appears to have brown hair, and darker ( possibly green ) eyes.

* In 1995 Fred Reiss published a novel titled Gidget Must Die: a Killer Surf Novel, about the darker side of surf culture.

Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes ( 1969 ) was a darker, more complex novel about the way time slip ( back to 1918 ) could threaten the main character's very identity.