The Brooke-Rose Omnibus

by Brooke-Rose, Christine

  Chronos a–

  Circe ß

  Claire ϑ–

  Clarissa x

  Cleopatra ϑ–

  Clèves, Prince de ϑ–

  Clèves, Princesse de x

  Clèves, gentilhomme de ϑ–

  Coma x

  Commandatore, the ϑ–

  Corpus, the x

  Creon ϑ–

  cummings, e.e. ß

  Cygnus x

  dancing hoops, the a–

  Dame, Notre γ

  Dante, Alighieri γ–

  daughter, king’s x

  David, King x

  Death a+

  Defoe, Daniel γ–

  Deleuze, Giles ß+

  demagogue, the short plump ϑ–

  Derrida, Jacques ß

  Dickens, Charles x

  Diderot, Denis ß+

  Dievushkin γ–

  Disparue, Albertine x

  Donatello ϑ–

  Doreen ϑ+

  Dostoievski, Fedor ß–

  Doyle, Conan γ–

  Dryden, John γ

  Eco, Umberto ß+

  Eliot, George x

  Eliot, T.S. γ+

  Eminence grise γ–

  Emperor ϑ–

  Empson, William x

  Enzo x

  Eros a+

  Eteocles x

  Eurilochus γ–

  Excalibur x

  Faber, Marie ϑ–

  Fataliste, Jacques le a–

  Father x

  femme-enfant x

  femme fatale x

  femme reine x

  Faustus, Dr. γ+

  Fèvre, Jean-Marie ϑ–

  Fitzgerald, Edward x

  folk, the ß+

  Freud, Sigmund ß–

  Freya x

  Frobenius, Leo x

  Frye, Northrop γ–

  Gaia, alias earth a–

  Galliard, Robert ϑ

  Gemini ϑ–

  Genette, Gérard ß+

  gentleman, the verbal x

  Gimble, Oliver ϑ–

  Gioconda, la γ–

  Giovanni, Don, alias Juan γ+

  God x

  gods γ

  Gogol, Nikolai ß–

  Gombrowicz, Witold γ+

  Gonne, Maud x

  Graves, Robert x

  Greimas, A.J. ß+

  Guinevere ϑ+

  Gulliver ß+

  Haimon x

  Hamlet ß

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel ϑ+

  Hegel, G. W. F. a

  Heidegger, Martin γ

  Héloise x

  Héloise, la nouvelle ϑ–

  henchman, lanky ϑ–

  hero, the ϑ–

  Hjelmslev, Louis x

  Homer x

  Hubert ϑ–

  Husserl, E. γ–

  idyll, the ϑ+

  Institution, the ϑ–

  Irigaray, Luce x

  Isabel ϑ–

  Iseult ϑ

  Isherwood, Christopher ϑ+

  Isis ϑ

  Jakobson, Roman ß

  James Henry γ–

  Jocasta, Queen ϑ+

  Jones, Eliza ϑ

  Jove x

  Julian x

  Julien (St) le Pauvre γ

  Kaplan, Myra γ+

  Karamazov, Dmitri γ

  Keats, John x

  Kermode, Frank x

  Kreutzer, Professor ϑ—

  Kristeva, Julia ß+

  La Bocca, Professor x

  Lacan, Jacques ß+

  lady, the linguistic x

  lady, of the left ϑ+

  Lancelot ϑ

  Laretino, Stavro x

  La Tour, G. de x

  lawbearer, the ϑ—

  Leporello ß–

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude γ+

  Littlebrown, Professor ϑ–

  Littlebrown-Fitzjohn, Claire ϑ–

  logos, hmo γ–

  logos, unvoiced x

  lover of the moment a+

  Maddy x

  Maeterlinck x

  Maître, le γ+

  Malatesta, Paolo di γ

  Mallarmé, Stéphane x

  Mandel, Michael ϑ

  man with blue guitar, the a

  man from Porlock, the γ

  Manzoni, Alessandro x

  Marco x

  Marcuse, Herbert a–

  Marika x

  Marner, Silas x

  Marx, Karl a+

  Master marksman of moment γ–

  Masters, Christopher x

  Masters, Veronica x

  Maurice ϑ–

  Mélisande ϑ–

  Medaware, Dr. Gregory ϑ—

  Mercury γ

  Merteuil, Mme de ϑ+

  Midas, King ϑ–

  Milton, John x

  Miriam ϑ–

  mistress of the moment a+

  Molière γ

  Moses x

  Mother x

  Musset’s Muse x

  Narrator(s), the x

  Newman, Francesca ϑ

  Ngu-Rey, Professor Chou ϑ–

  Nourennin, Ali ß+

  Novello, Ivor x

  Odysseus ß+

  Oedipus, King x

  Olaf ϑ–

  Oliver ϑ–

  Orion ß–

  Orpheus x

  Oscar ϑ–

  O’Shaunessy, Kathleen x

  Ottavio, Don x

  overhead projector γ–

  Pamela ϑ–

  Pankhurst, Mrs. γ+

  Paris Telephone Exchange x

  Penelope ϑ

  Phaedrus γ–

  Phallusman, the a+

  Philanthropos, Professor ϑ–

  picaroon, the a–

  Plato ß–

  Pleiades x

  Polanska, Renata ϑ–

  Polenta, Francesca da a

  Ponte, L. da a

  Pound, Ezra ß

  prince disguised as poor younger son x

  princesse lointaine x

  Propp, Vladimir ϑ–

  Proust, Marcel x

  Pygmalion γ–

  Quipu γ

  Ra ϑ

  Racine, Jean ϑ–

  Rachmaninov, Sergei x

  Ram, the x

  Rastier, Francois γ+

  Rastignac ϑ–

  Rustaveli, Choto x

  Ruwet, Nicolas ß

  Sade, Marquis de ß+

  Sand, Georges x

  Santores, Armel x

  Santores, Mrs. see Toren ϑ

  Saussure, F. de γ–

  Scheherezade a–

  Scholasticus, Homo ϑ–

  second pair of eyes a–

  Semeiosis, Professor ϑ–

  Shakespeare, William ß

  Shandy, Tristram ß+

  Snoopy a

  Socrates ß–

  Sophisto, Professor ϑ–

  Sophists, the ϑ–

  Sordello, di Mantovana x

  Soul, book of the x

  Stein, Gertrude ϑ–

  Sterne, Laurence x

  Stevens, Wallace ß+

  Stradiver, Paul ϑ–

  Streisand, Barbra ϑ

  Student Body, the a+

  Su Fu, Lin x

  ϑ–

  γ+

  Swift, Jonathan γ+

  Tancredi, Salvatore ϑ+

  Tariel ϑ–

  Text, the x

  Textivores, the ϑ–

  Thamar, Queen x

  Thamus a–

  Thanatos a+

  Thor x

  Thoth γ+

  Todorov, Tzvetan ß

  Toren, Larissa x

  Toren, 3 illegitimate children x

  Tove, Jeremy ϑ–

  trait-or, the ϑ–

  Tristan ϑ–

  Troy, Helen of ϑ+

  Uang Iu p‘uh x

  Underwood, Dr. ϑ–

  Uranus ϑ–

  Valery, Paul x

  Valincour x


  Valmont, Comte de a–

  Valmorin, Louise de x

  Victoria, Queen x

  Virgil ϑ–

  Vitruvius, Pollio, Marcus x

  Vivien ϑ–

  Vizir, the ϑ–

  vox populi a

  Wagner, Richard γ

  Webb, Miss Helen ϑ–

  Weintraub, Julia ϑ

  Wimsatt, W.K. ϑ+

  Woolf, Virginia γ–

  Yorick, poor a+

  (Portraits by the Student Body)

  Oh keep them out of it the students have dispersed from the institution of learning how to become a parasite upon a text nobody reads passed on from generation to must go on the other scene since the institution of unlearning has been closed down by an obituary act of authority due to textual disturbances.

  So that youn drive away into the nightwiddling along the transistor of disembodied voiceless logos watching the hoops that dance red amber white green mauve eyes made up by the disappeared narrator in a mere vehicle now deprived of pilot who would not stay for an answer

  About the Author

  CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE was born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. She worked in Intelligence at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and as a freelance reviewer and writer during the 1950s and 60s. She is the author of a number of works of academic criticism and translations, as well as novels, one of which, Such, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966. Christine Brooke-Rose taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and now lives in the south of France.

  Also by Christine Brooke-Rose from Carcanet

  Amalgamemnon

  Xorandor

  Verbivore

  Textermination

  Remake

  Next

  Subscript

  Life, End of

  Copyright

  First published in Great Britain in 1986

  by Carcanet Press Ltd, Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester M2 7AQ

  This impression 2006

  This ebook edition first published in 2012

  Out (1964), Such (1966) and Between (1968) were originally published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London; Thru (1975) by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © The Estate of Christine Brooke-Rose 1964, 1966, 1968, 1975, 1986, 2006, 2012

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  Epub ISBN 978–1–84777–574–0

  Mobi ISBN 978–1–84777–575–7

  The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England