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TexterminationChristine Brooke-Rose![]()
Imprint: Carcanet Fiction
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (220 pages) (Pub. Mar 1997) 9781857542943 Out of Stock
. . . 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 . . .
But which Emma? Jane Austen's or Flaubert's? Christine Brooke-Rose's savagely comic novel-of-novels Textermination takes place at a conference not of academics but of characters out of great works of literature. They convene at the San Francisco Hilton to seminar and pray-pray for their continued survival in readers' minds. Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn, characters from The Satanic Verses who cause security problems, characters so minor that they are guttering out, all clamber for attention. What begins as an orderly exercise devolves into spectacular pandemonium as characters from various cultures, times and genres are swept into the political and academic conflicts of our day.
Praise for Christine Brooke-Rose
If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose.
Frank Kermode on Thru If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose. Frank Kermode on Thru Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose. Frank Kermode on Thru Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English
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