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The Brooke-Rose Omnibus

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet

Published: 2012-07-27

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1847775748

FOUR NOVELS: Out (1964), Such (1966), Between (1968) and Thru (1975) The Brooke-Rose Omnibus brings together four unexpected novels: Out, a science-fiction vision of a world surviving catastrophe; Such, in which a three-minute heart massage is developed into a poetic and funny narrative; Between, a glittering experience of the multiplicity of language; and Thru, a novel in which text and typography assume a life of their own. Linking them all is wit, inventiveness and the sharply focused intellegence of Christine Brooke-Rose, a great European humanist writer.

Thru

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 176

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Xorandor

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 226

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Amalgamemnon

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 152

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History and literature seem to be losing ground in the contemporary world of electronic media, and battle lines have been drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases these boundaries in a punning monologue that blends the contemporary with the historical, and in which she sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Here, Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature and modern anxieties to produce a powerful novel about our future.

Between

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 200

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The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 756

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These four novels by Christine Brooke-Rose each develop distinctive narrative patterns, changing the structures, textures, forms, and idioms of fiction to explore the central tensions and contradictions in culture. The novels are distinguished by their high wit, restless inventiveness, and the sharp focus of a European humanist reflecting on that culture.

Life, End of

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet

Published: 2012-07-27

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1847775721

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She is eighty. Facing death, she considers her experiments with narrative, and with the narrative of her life. What is the purpose of the narrative she is creating here, and what the purpose of the life that lives it in the writing? At the centre of Life, End of, in a mock-technical lecture from the Character to the Author, she comes to accept that her experiments in narrative are like life: the narrative creates itself. Christine Brooke-Rose's last novel is a darkly comic exploration of the meanings and non-meanings to which, in the end, life and art lead us.

Textermination

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780811212168

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In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all.