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.

" As mentioned above in section on Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl Derrida actually argues for the contamination of pure origins by the structures of language and temporality and Manfred Frank has even referred to Derrida's work as " Neostructuralism " and this seems to capture Derrida's novel concern for how texts are structured.

The notebooks indicate that Dostoyevsky was aware of the emergence of new aspects of Raskolnikov's character as the plot action proceeded, and he structured the novel in conformity with this " metamorphosis ," Frank says.

Fleming structured the novel in three sections —" Happenstance ", " Coincidence " and " Enemy action "— which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him.

Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem Howl, a Whitmanesque work that began: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ..." Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ), the chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs.

This novel is structured as first person narratives of 5 characters, 4 of whom arrive on the same flight, and the unfolding of their experiences on the island.

Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly ones is structured in different parts, each one of these named after a Baroque dance, the last part being called Gigue.

The novel is structured as a series of long semi-independent chapters ; each a distinct story within a long campaign by the protagonist Sam – a classic trickster character – against the established gods of the world.

One day, while Yossarian explains his pitiful circumstances, Doc Daneeka becomes the first in the novel to detail the structured frameworking of what is formally known as " Catch-22 "; a circular argument that prevents any of the men from removing themselves from combat:

Moonstone Books started a new Spider graphic novel series, which are structured more like illustrated prose stories than traditional panel-by-panel comics.

As a novel, Cloudstreet is tightly structured, opening and ending with a shared celebratory family picnic-a joyous occasion which, ironically, is also the scene of Fish ’ s long sought-after death or return to the water.

She describes a typical Mills & Boon novel as a rape fantasy structured around " the ' gender dance '— man chases woman, woman resists, and, finally, woman submits in a blaze of passion.

Beginning with some of the earliest reviews of Kidnapped in 1886, it has been thought the novel was structured after the true story of James Annesley, a presumptive heir to five aristocratic titles who was kidnapped at the age of 12 by his uncle Richard and shipped from Dublin to America in 1728.

The novel is structured in three segments, each segment describing the ever-growing isolation of the protagonist from the society.

Robert Frobisher, for instance, feels that Ewing's purported journal is too neatly structured to be genuine ; " Half Lives " is implied to be a fictional adventure novel submitted to Timothy Cavendish's literary agency.

The celebrated Astrée ( 1610 ) of Honoré d ' Urfé, the earliest French novel, is structured in this style.

The novel represents a far more conservative, structured ( though still comic ) war memoir, told by a sarcastically naïve and puerile Lieutenant Goodbody in the first person.

The novel draws on the style of jazz, being structured in a fragmented, and " syncopated " form, with episodes extending in elongated " riffs " before suddenly lurching unpredictably into an apparently unrelated scene.

Some critics found the novel too preachy ; some, including Leonard Woolf, thought it was poorly structured ; some complained of sloppiness in style.

The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author / anti-hero and various criminals, con artists, pimps, and even a detective.

Taking cues equally from James Joyce, the Torah and Talmud, and the events of recent history, Klein structured his novel as a series of five chapters, from Genesis to Deuteronomy, each of which corresponds to one of the five books of the Pentateuch.

A few paranormals are set solely in the past and are structured much like any historical romance novel.

The film, set in contemporary Paris and taking place in a small apartment, is structured as a series of personal and ideological dialogues dramatizing the interactions of five French university students — three young men and two young women — belonging to a radical Maoist group called the " Aden Arabie Cell " ( named for the novel, Aden, Arabie, by Paul Nizan ).

The plot is structured around the physical and mental deterioration of Aurora as she suffers anorexia and her weight drops throughout the novel.

The novel is structured as a frame story in an oriental setting, evocative of the Arabian Nights, in which Amanzéï recounts the adventures of seven couples, which he witnessed in his sofa form, to the bored sultan Shah Baham ( grandson of Shehryār and Scheherazade ).