Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose
Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose. 1991 Carcanet, first edition, 182 pages. Brooke-Rose was a Geneva-born British writer and critic, whose cult novels were experimental and "difficult." In the New York Times, "Ms. Brooke-Rose was a linguistic escape artist. In book after book she dons self-imposed syntactic shackles, and in book after book she gleefully slips them." According to her Guardian obituary, "Textermination (1991) was set at a conference in San Francisco, attended by characters from Austen, Flaubert, Eliot, Pynchon, Roth and Rushdie, who petition potential readers with the help of literary critics who "interpret" them for the masses." In fact the reader must do a bit of "detective work" to figure who is supposed to be who.
Condition: Jacket near fine, book VG, pencil marks on end paper
"so that Emma found, on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr Elton, that the door was to be lawfully shut on them, and that they were to have a tete-a-tete drive."
Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose. 1991 Carcanet, first edition, 182 pages. Brooke-Rose was a Geneva-born British writer and critic, whose cult novels were experimental and "difficult." In the New York Times, "Ms. Brooke-Rose was a linguistic escape artist. In book after book she dons self-imposed syntactic shackles, and in book after book she gleefully slips them." According to her Guardian obituary, "Textermination (1991) was set at a conference in San Francisco, attended by characters from Austen, Flaubert, Eliot, Pynchon, Roth and Rushdie, who petition potential readers with the help of literary critics who "interpret" them for the masses." In fact the reader must do a bit of "detective work" to figure who is supposed to be who.
Condition: Jacket near fine, book VG, pencil marks on end paper
"so that Emma found, on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr Elton, that the door was to be lawfully shut on them, and that they were to have a tete-a-tete drive."