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Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

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Little Big Man is a 1970 film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 novel by Thomas Berger. It is a picaresque comedy and drama about a Caucasian boy raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century. A major part of the film involves...


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The Spectator
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06/12/2004: 642 words, approx. 2 pages
Exhibitions 2 Little big man Joan MirĂ³ La Naissance du Monde Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, until 28 June The big crowd-puller in Paris right now is the Centre Pompidou's exhibition devoted to Joan MirĂ³ (1893-1983)....
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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05/29/1994: 689 words, approx. 2 pages
MIKE KELLY The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-29-1994 LITTLE BIG MAN By MIKE KELLY Date: 05-29-1994, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Sometimes politicians reveal themselves in ways that are so odd that you have to wonder what...
 


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Critical Essay by L. L. Lee
1,066 words, approx. 4 pages
[Little Big Man] is a most American novel. Not just in its subject, its setting, its story (these are common matters), but in its thematic structures, in its dialectic: savagery and civilization, indeed, but also the virgin land and the city, nature and the machine, individualism and community, democracy and hierarchy, innocence and knowledge, all the divisive and unifying themes of the American experience, or, more precisely, of the American "myth." In other words, Berger's novel is an...
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Critical Essay by Jay Gurian
752 words, approx. 3 pages
It is satire and incongruity which strike the reader about [Little Big Man] especially because both are so seldom used as important style devices in western writing. Berger has Jack Crabb tell (into a tape recorder when he is over 100) what happened to him from 1852 to 1876. (p. 286) [The] picaresque pattern of the first half of the novel, is sometimes too involved and too fragmentary…. [Crabb] is a bounder, gold miner, gambler, gun-slinger, speculator, sharper, laborer, teamster, buffalo hunter, and...


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Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

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