Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/2008

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Nausea

La Nausée is a novel by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1938 while he was a college professor. It is one of Sartre's best-known novels.

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• Contains a lot of good information, but lacks an info box, proper sections, and mostly needs a lot of expansion and reorganizing. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• one of my all time favourite novels!!!! baby_ifritah 14:51, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• I think this is a good candidate, but I hate to say I know little about it. I got given a copy last year...--MacRusgail 12:44, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Rabbit, Run

Being the first in John Updike's insanely popular and influential series, which spawned two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, this article is a joke. It's riddled with seemingly OR and has no real substance. It could greatly benefit from a long, hard scrubbing. María: (habla ~ cosas) 13:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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• firmly agree! :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 13:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• Surely 'a joke' is a bit harsh, but I do think it should be further improved if possible. Zigzig20s 17:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• I have never read the novel, but I have always meant to. Victorianist (talk) 17:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

The Betrothed

I Promessi Sposi (in English, The Betrothed) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. It is the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language.

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• Has an info box, but this article is in desperate need of an extended plot summary, character list, and analysis of it's influence upon subsequent Italian literature. Needs more historical data. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

A Farewell to Arms

A Hemmingway novel. His third. It has only an infobox, one paragraph of plot summary, and a list of three film adaptations. Needs work. Soon. --EncycloPetey 23:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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• Given who this is by and the significance of the novel in the Hemingway canon, Wikipedia deserves better than this. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Pride and Prejudice

It's quite sad that an article on such an important novel has no "Themes" or "Literary significance" section. The article probably deserves a substantial "Reception history" section as well. A "Themes" section was developed previously, but it was moved to the talk page in December 2006 for WP:OR, where it remains. An individual effort to write these sections into the article – with adequate references – is quite daunting. I think such a task deserves a collaborative effort. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 00:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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• Major work as Liveste says - could do with the suggested additions but - it does need to be done well, a high profile wikipedia article. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 10:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

• The existing plot summary is terribly baggy and the detailed character sketches, though largely accurate, are far too detailed. Agree this must be done well if done at all, but the present deficiencies are glaring. Karenjc (talk) 18:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• I am not a member of this project, but I am interested in improving Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial) soon and may be able to help out a little with the novel article as well. – sgeureka ^t•c 13:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Cities in Flight

One of the best works by one of the most sophisticated Golden Age science fiction writers. Currently, it redirects to its author, James Blish. ragesoss 12:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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• Seems to be this author "Magnum Opus". Should be properly covered. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• I would support this article for collaboration of the month except the the book is very hard to find. I've been trying to collect key sci-fi novels for the past few years and this is one I've not come across, even in specialty stores. By contrast, I've had an easy time finding A Case of Conscience, which could also use a reworking. --EncycloPetey 18:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• I'd also be interested in Golden Age Sci-fi, even though Blish is an author I haven't read. The previous comment about unavailability worries me. Also, the James Blish article seems to say it's a series. Are you nominating the series as a whole or a specific title?

  (blink) You've never read any Blish?? He's considered one of the greats! As for the question about the "series", the original stories were collected by Blish and issued as a single volume entitled Cities in Flight. As such, it may not qualify for the label "novel". --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe's first novel. Published in 1929, it is slightly autobiographical, and Wolfe uses the main character, Eugene Gant, as a stand-in for himself.

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• A two sentence article - a true stub. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• In the 30s, Wolfe was regarded as a major novelist, in the first rank of Americans. Now, in the postmodern age, he is completely out of fashion due to his extravagantly anti-minimalist approach. This current judgment seems blatantly unfair and fashion-centric. In any case, Wolfe's historical importance is great -- and Angel deserves comprehensive treatment in any encyclopedia.
• A very weak an lacking stub on the major work of an important novelist who has been mainly forgotten in the shadow of Faulkner, Hemingway, and other major figures of period, perhaps because he died young. Faulkner consistently called Wolfe the 'best failure', among American writers, ranking himself and Steinbeck behind him. In today's literary era of postmodernism, minalamism, and exorbitant stylism, Wolfe is frequently dismissed, or worse, ignored. In the 1930s Wolfe was among the highest regarded in the American literary scene, right among Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck. It was after his death that his reputation gradually declined. Had he not died young he might have secured his reputation. If Faulkner had died in 1938 he would not have the reputation he enjoys today. At that point in time, in fact, his literary reputation was in the pits. This should be a prime candidate for improvement.

Steppenwolf

A well-known 1928 novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. According to the current article, the novel has four characters and a theme. I have great difficulty following the Plot Summary, though I am familiar with the novel. --EncycloPetey 21:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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Novel

This is a dismal article, which seems to largely consist of a lengthy and somewhat idiosyncratic essay about the origins of the novel. There is almost no discussion of the novel after the 18th century, and no mention of most major authors. Furthermore, this article ought to be a high priority for this project, given that it's the basic article about the subject of the project. john k (talk) 18:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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• Clearly this should be our premier article. It should be FA - so why not guys? :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 20:43, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
• I don't think this belongs here though. I thought the intention of this was to work on actual projects. This seems a little too tecnical.--Robert Waalk (talk) 01:39, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
  • What in the world do you mean? More specifically, 1) in what way does the Novel article not constitute an "actual project"? 2) In what way is the Novel article "technical"? john k (talk) 19:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
    • Well, it's not an actual work of fiction, this section is for improving works of fiction. It'd be like a group devoted to writing articles on major crusie ships and their histories suddenly started working on an article on cruise ships in general. It is to general and too technical. This for novels, not the novel, that seems a more historical and technical explanation of what a novel is, not a part of our projects here.--Robert Waalk (talk) 02:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
      • I would agree with you, Robert Waalk, except for the fact that your example is essentially incorrect. Film falls under WP:FILMS, Zoo = WP:ZOO, University = WP:UNI, Plant = WP:PLANTS, etc, etc, despite them being what you call "technical" articles. Of course novel should fall under our project header. If not the most important, general article that we have to offer (one that explains the entire scope of our project and its related articles), it is certainly of high importance. Therefore, I see no reason why it shouldn't be the subject of a collaboration. María (habla conmigo) 13:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
      • What Maria said - Novel obviously falls under this project. Just because the article does somewhat different things from the usual kind of article this project deals with does not mean that it is outside the scope of the project. john k (talk) 14:46, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
• Clearly a priority article. Given the upcoming release of Wikipedia 0.7, of all the selected articles in our scope that need to be well-written, this would have to be the most important (at least in terms of WikiProject scope). It's a broad subject, so it shouldn't be hard to contribute something towards it. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 14:54, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

The Counterfeiters (novel)

The Counterfeiters is a novel by French author André Gide. Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925) (translated as The Counterfeiters in 1927) is considered one of his more noteworthy endeavors. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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• An article on this novel does not yet exist. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Gide's novels were, at the time, regarded as epochally pioneering works of modernism, and I personally find them inspiring and fascinating. I'm amazed to find so little coverage of them on Wikipedia and to see their priority ranked as "low."
• I have not read any of Gide's novels, but have heard of him. The novel looks like a promising read, and I intend to read it. It could use some work.