Re: Shakespeare's sister

Subject: Re: Shakespeare's sister
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 17:59:16 EST

Thankyou very much Will! I told my agent it is `A.S. Byatt's `Possession' meets Nabokov's `Lolita'. If that makes you cringe a little, don't worry - it's more a challenge to myself than anything else. How can someone put yet another spin on the Lolita story with out being, in the words of that fine Canadian band The Pursuit of Happiness, `either boring or dirty'?

I've always been particularly interested in Salinger's approaching of his intellectual and spiritual concerns via fiction rather than theory, and questioning whether or not those two delicate qualities cancel one another out (could we take Seymour's suicide as an indication that they do?)

I'll have to search out those books and pop them next to the Umberto Ecos on my bookshelf! 

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Louise Z. Brooks
"Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:10:10   William Hochman wrote:
>Louise, until your book comes out, my favorite novels about academics are
>_Straight Man_ by Richard Russo and _Small World_ by David Lodge, though
>if we count SAI or Franny as academic fiction (where academics are
>characters) then I'd have to qualify my picks above.  Good luck with the
>book--it sounds like a fine way to dance with the Bard! will
>
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