Review Of Mordecai Richler S The Apprenticeship

Review Of Mordecai Richler s The Apprenticeship

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He started as an extra. His first TV script is still used as a warning to young writers. And his movies have to be seen - but not by him May 20 Mordecai Richler I had, like any other young novelist, started out editor dissertation believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over.

I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that Review Of Mordecai Richler s The Apprenticeship they had only just begun. A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more. In London, where I met many established novelists, I found that almost all of them, even the most celebrated, had something going for them on the side. Some were at the universities, others were reviewers or worked as advisers to publishing houses, and still more functioned as radio, television, or film script writers.

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I can say, truthfully, that I started out at the bottom in the film business. Several times, when I was broke in the south of France, I worked as an extra. Broke again, this time in London, I got work as a reader for a studio script department. Underpaid, too. The grateful author, the story goes, sought out the reader and tipped him ten pounds.

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So, even article source this lowly job, there was hope. And experts, I discovered, could manage to skim through and report on as many as four books a day. I never got to be an expert. My career was too short-lived. One day a script editor handed me a book for which, she said, I would be paid a double fee. And so, embarrassed but needy, I took the play home, wrote a synopsis, and mailed it off.

The next morning the script editor phoned me, horrified. The late Bertolt Brecht, as you know, is considered to be one Review Of Mordecai Richler s The Apprenticeship the outstanding playwrights of our time. Strong suspense-wise. Calls for a big budget, I think, but potentially boffo.]