Talk:White Dog (Gary novel)

White Dog (Gary novel) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
May 6, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 8, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 27, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Romain Gary's 1970 fictional memoir White Dog, originally released as Chien Blanc, attacks Marlon Brando and Jean Seberg for their activist activities in the 1960s?

Current status: Good article

Unsourced[edit]

Need a source for "Gary and Seberg's efforts to reeducate their racist pet are described in the context of the social unrest of the late 1960s, specifically the assassination of Martin Luther King, the rise and fall of the Black Power movement, and the May 1968 student demonstrations in Paris."

-- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 23:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews?[edit]

The back cover of the newer English release of White Dog has quotes from reviews supposedly from Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, and Library Journal but searches of all three from EBSCO and Lexis Nexis have not found any of these reviews. Anyone else have better luck? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nancy Huston, Romain Gary: A Foreign Body in French Literature. Poetics Today, Vol. 17, No. 4, Creativity and Exile: European/American Perspectives II (Winter, 1996), pp. 547-568.

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/WhiteDogBook —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.76.162.50 (talk • contribs) 21:55, March 20, 2009

Thanks, I've requested copies of both, though probably will not get till the 23rd since its spring break at A&M :) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also Kornel Huvos, "Vers un renouveau du "mirage américain" dans les lettres françaises." The French Review, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Dec., 1973), pp. 291-301, on p. 299. (JSTOR has it) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.76.162.50 (talk) 03:16, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Translation[edit]

I have one lengthy French article about this and another of Romain's work that appear to go into themes and what not, but the translators just can't translate it! Anyone who reads French well willing to go through and see what it has? If so, let me know and I can send it via PDF. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA on hold[edit]

Storyline is too short. Can you add something more? Or else, what's the rule for a 279-page book? Hometech (talk) 18:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't any real rule for books. Television episodes 150-300, and Films 400-700, so guess somewhere in there. Having not read the book myself, I could only put in what I could find in reliable sources rather than from the book. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 19:04, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will boldly restore the yet-to-be-done status of this article. This was not a GA review that states whether the GA criteria are now there or comments on whether the issues raised in the first review where addressed. The article was left listed at WP:GAN anyway. Hekerui (talk) 20:04, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]