Also, Nabokov's "Pale Fire"
Cheers,
Gerald Schwartz
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From: "Gabriel Gudding" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: novels about poets
> Saul Bellow's _Humboldt's Gift_, protagonist Von Humboldt Fleischer
> modelled on Delmore Schwartz.
> J. Kerouac:_On the Road_. Kitrell Andis' _Bookstore_.
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> At 04:20 AM 10/19/2002 +0100, david.bircumshaw wrote:
> >Well, Frederick, there is Doctor Zhivago.
> >
> >The Enderby novels make me cringe with embarrassment as Enderby is an
> >outlying suburb of Leicester and that was where Anthony Burgess got the
> >title from.
> >
> >Best
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >David Bircumshaw
> >
> >Leicester, England
> >
> >Home Page
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> >A Chide's Alphabet
> >
> >Painting Without Numbers
> >
> >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:17 AM
> >Subject: novels about poets
> >
> >
> >This Laxness novel is making me think how few novels, or at least
> >memorable novels, there are about poets - I loved Anthony Burgess's
> >Enderby tetralogy and Nabokov's The Gift. Others?
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