The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

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A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canonA signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success As such, it is the world s leading authority on the subject.Compiled in one volume by C D Rose, a well educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world s pre eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin.The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment the definitive appreciation of history s least accomplished writers Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency.It is, in short, a treasure. Best Read [ The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure ] By [ C.D. Rose ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr i didn t clock that this was fiction until i was further in than i want to admit the introduction blinded me full as it is of pomp and academic jargon quoting from a checklist of names designed to make all the white men in tweed coats cerebrally moist, and i was completely on board, believing i was going to read a series of entries about authors who had been screwed by circumstance but would have been great if not for that war, that late bus, that faulty typewriter.re reading the intro aft i didn t clock that this was fiction until i was further in than i want to admit the introduction blinded me full as it is of pomp and academic jargon quoting from a checklist of names designed to make all the white men in tweed coats cerebrally moist, and i was completely on board, believing i was going to read a series of entries about authors who had been screwed by circumstance but would have been great if not for that war, that late bus, that faulty typewriter.re reading the intro after this realization, one can see the little cheeky bits, but way back ...The seventies were a particularly slow period He spent all of 1973 poring over a single word, and most of 1974 erasing it.C.D Rose gathers all manners of authorial misfortune in his collection of imagined authors I have to admire his Borgesian project as well as his conceit The traces of the latter afford one the grim grin when pondering the Pens of Omission It ...An entertaining overview of 52 fictional writers who never quite made it The author s strategy of rescuing figures from otherwise sure obscurity is similar to Paul Collins s in Banvard s Folly or even Megan Mayhew Bergman s in Almost Famous Women M...evirisini yaparken ok e lendim Yazar olmay ok istemi ama bir t rl ba aramam insanlar n ironik hikayelerini sarkastik bir dille anlatan, ok enteresan bir kitap.I hope this book fails as a commercial item.Just a quick one today, folks.Okay, for those of you who are like me easily confused, this book is a work of fiction None of the people in it actually existed I did not realize this until three quarters of the way through the book SO YOU KNOW.That probably says a lot about how effective it is as a satire which is to say, pretty damn The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failures is a semi inspirational collection of again let me emphasize this word fictional would be authors who failed Just a quick one today, folks.Okay, for those of you who are like me easily confused, this book is a work of fiction None of the people in it actually existed I did not realize this until three quarters of the way through the book SO YOU KNOW.That probably says a lot about how effective it is as a satire which is to say, pretty damn The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failures is a semi inspirational collection of again let me emphasize this word fictional would be authors who failed in one way or another I actually found it a pretty good inducement to write, watching all of these people fail However, it s also a satire of literary fiction and thepretentious people who gravitate toward it, as well as the academic cottage industry that has sprung up around analyzing it It s okay, but I think I maybe read it too fast The biographies seemed to blur togethe...Amusing, even clever, but not essential reading i think this material works best on a blog I did enjoy the art literary references that are very much part of this book and some of the entries are totally winning but overall a one note reading experience What would be really interesting ...Kitap, elli yk den olu uyor yk lerin her birinin en fazla d rder sayfal k yer kaplad n g z n nde bulundurursak, iyi bir okuyucuysan z, bir g n n sabah nda ba lad n z bu kitab en k t ihtimalle ertesi g n n leninde bitirebilirsiniz Yaln z, kitab n abuk bitebilir bir kitap olmas ile ilgili bu zelli inden ba ka bir zelli i daha var ki, o da i erisindeki hikayelerin orjinalli i ve g zel anlat m.O veya bu ekilde olamayan onca eyi, bizlerden b y k ba ka bir kuvvetin oldurmad Kitap, elli yk den olu uyor yk lerin her birinin en fazla d rder sayfal k yer kaplad n g z n nde bulundurursak, iyi bir okuyucuysan z, bir g n n sabah nda ba lad n z bu kitab en k t ihtimalle ertesi g n n leninde bitirebilirsiniz Yaln z, kitab n abuk bitebilir bir kitap olmas ile ilgili bu zelli inden ba ka bir...This book is fiction and very funny, but it does a great job coming off very serious, scholarly, and intellectual, including an index and cross references It is short 3 4 pages each biographies of peo...Taking long form comedy to brave new heights, this is a fictive attempt to document the who, what, when, why, where, and how of writers who tried and failed Rose lists authors you won t find anywhere, not because they are obscure or even unknown but because they don t exist Ellery Fortescue Lord Frederick Rathole Elsie La Rue though I was serenaded by her great grandaughter, Bubbles, who popped out of a cake on my last birthday Don t be taken in, as I first was, by Sorbonne instructor An Taking long form comedy to brave new heights, this is a fictive attempt to document the who, what, when, why, where, and how of writers who tried and fa...

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
  • English
  • 03 June 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 192 pages
  • 1612193781
  • C.D. Rose
  • The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure