1. I must except to your remark that there are no great novelists currently living.. 2. As a screenwriter, Vladimir Nabokov was a great novelist. 3. Audiences, the great novelist said, will find it tedious, and they did. 4. A great novelist puts the reader in subjectivity, not objectivity. 5. Faulkner got us to talking about the affinities between Caribbean writers and the cluster of great Southern novelists in the United States. 6. Jorge Luis Borges, the great novelist, was a regular there. 7. Of the great American novelists, few were so uncomfortable in it and none was more private. 8. Of course, great novelists from Flaubert to Joyce to Dreiser have used real people as the basis for their fictional characters at one time or another. 9. That same year, as Clinton recalled, William Faulkner, the great American novelist, acknowledged the fear of nuclear annihilation that then gripped much of the world. 10. The great English novelist Charles Dickens wrote most of his books on the installment plan. |