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Book Description E. L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is

"The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the universe? Human consciousness, personal history, American literature, religion, and politics--these are the far-flung coordinates of the universe that Doctorow reports here, a universe that uniquely and brilliantly reflects our contemporary scene.

E. L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late nineteenth century to the present. Doctorow has also played an active role in transforming his novels into films, writing screenplay adaptations of three of his works― The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake. Published here for the first time, his scripts reveal a new aspect of this writer's remarkable talents and offer film students and other cineastes unique insight into the complex relationship of literature and motion pictures.

Each of these screenplays has undergone a different fate. Doctorow's script for Daniel was made into a feature film by director Sidney Lumet in 1983. The monumental Ragtime screenplay he wrote for director Robert Altman was to have been filmed as either a six-hour feature film or a ten-hour television series. When Altman was replaced on the project by Milos Forman, a shorter, more conventional script was commissioned from another writer. In 1981, Doctorow adapted Loon Lake, but this challenging work has yet to be filmed.

For this book, Doctorow has revised his dazzling Ragtime screenplay, making clear how different the film might have been, and has written a preface about the art of screenwriting. In addition, editor Paul Levine provides a general introduction to Doctorow's fiction and specific introductions to each screenplay; interviews Lumet about making Daniel; and talks with Doctorow about his abiding interest in the art and craft of cinema.

All the Time in the World

Lives of the Poets

Loon Lake

The Waterworks

Creationists

Homer & Langley

Четыре повести, составившие сборник, принадлежат перу крупнейших писателей США. Классик американской литературы К.Э.Портер, в творчестве которой жанр "короткого романа" особенно высоко оценивается критиками, в "Падающей башне", предваряя свой знаменитый роман "Корабль дураков", исследует проблему пагубного влияния реакционной идеологии на личность, на психологию и нравственность людей. Тонким психологизмом отмечена повесть Дж.Апдайка "Ярмарка в богадельне". Неудачником считает себя Томми Вильгельм, герой повести Сола Беллоу "Лови момент", не умеющий приспособиться к миру ловких дельцов. И, наконец, четвертая повесть - "Жизнь поэтов"…

Великий ретророман, послуживший основой для культового фильма Милоша Формана. Здесь реальное переплелось с вымышленным, экстраординарное — с обыденным. Чтобы раскрыть в этой удивительно тонкой и остроумной книге истинную душу Америки, Доктороу выбрал важнейший отрезок ее истории — начало ХХ века, "эру рэгтайма". Он сделал Форда, Моргана, Гудини и других исторических личностей персонажами своего романа, а громкие события и актуальные темы — кирпичиками для строительства фантастичной до абсурда, но при этом абсолютно правдивой семейной саги.