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Readers suspecting in this novel an anti-fiction fifth column will not be surprised to hear that Mr Rezza is better known as a comic actor and short-film maker.

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The novel caught the brooding, anti-establishment mood of the times and became an instant bestseller.

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Mr. Ahmadinejad was asked at the breakfast whether the Islamic Republic had formally lifted a 1980s religious decree that called for the death of the British writer Salman Rushdie, who wrote a novel that Muslim leaders considered anti-Islamic.

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Put aside, for the moment, the long postwar argument between the rival claims of realistic and anti-realistic fiction the seasoned triumphs of the traditional American novel on one side, and the necessary innovations of postmodern fiction on the other.

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That these anti-novelistic tricks are all, in fact, novelistic tricks, often borrowed from the history of the novel, does not muffle the pleasure of watching this literary freedom in action.

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