If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

The host of novel applications of electronics to medical problems is far more thrilling because of their implication in matters concerning our health and vitality.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

So is the time of the novel.

Corruption is hardly a recent development in the city and state that were widely identified as the locale of Edwin O'Connor's novel, `` The Last Hurrah ''.

London explains that the very distinct directional effect in the Phase 4 series is due in large part to their novel methods of microphoning and recording the music on a number of separate tape channels.

However, my principal objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

The Archduke plays a significant role both in Elizabeth George's mystery A Traitor to Memory ( 2001 ); and in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore ( 2002 ).

Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.

The Battle of Gallipoli features as a significant part of Louis de Bernières's novel Birds Without Wings.

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

In the novel, data privacy is reserved for corporate entities and individuals who may then conceal wrongdoing ; by contrast, normal citizens do not enjoy significant privacy.

Today, this version of the novel is considered to be a significant literary event in the history of Argentine literature ; however, when published it did not bring any great renown to the author, nor did the publication of Gombrowicz's drama Ślub in Spanish ( The Marriage, El Casamiento ) in 1948.

* September – Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first significant American novel, the Gothic fiction Wieland: or, The Transformation ; an American Tale.

Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as " stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant ; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it ," while Larzer Ziff ( UC Berkeley ) remarked that Dreiser " succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing a great American business novel.

It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel.

There are multiple instances throughout the novel where significant moments do not have an emotional impact on Meursault.

Shelley's construction of Lionel Verney's immunity remains a subject of significant critical debate, but the novel certainly demonstrates a deep understanding of the history of medicine, specifically the development of the smallpox vaccine and the various nineteenth-century theories about the nature of contagion.

The original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris ( the formal title of the Cathedral ) indicates that the Cathedral itself is the most significant aspect of the novel, both the main setting and the focus of the story's themes.

The novel indicates that Earth had experienced a nuclear world war ( the " Wet Firecracker War ") in the past century, although no significant traces of devastation are apparent at the time of the novel's setting.

Leigh Kimmel of The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf says that the novel is " the work of the man at the height of his powers, confident in his abilities and in the editorial respect he enjoys, and thus free to take significant risks in writing a novel that would stretch the boundaries of the genre as they stood at the time.

Although the novel won no awards upon release, it has remained in print and is seen as one of the most significant American novels of the 20th century.

Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday.

Though several important plot points are different, there are significant parallels between the two stories, and many scenes and lines are culled directly from Hammett's novel.

* There is also significant reference to an impossible object in Jonathan Lethem's most recent novel, Chronic City, where it plays a major part in the storyline.

In another significant film, Gone with the Wind, which was also produced by Selznick, Melanie Wilkes ( Olivia de Havilland ) reads aloud from the novel David Copperfield while she waits for the vigilantes to come home from the raid.

Here he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles, both of whom become significant later on in the novel.

Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama opens with a significant asteroid impact in northern Italy in the year 2077 which gives rise to the Spaceguard Project, which later discovers the Rama spacecraft.

Also significant within the Culture novel cycle is that the book shows a number of Minds acting in a decidedly non-benevolent way, somewhat qualifying the godlike non-corruptibility and benevolence they are ascribed in other Culture novels.