Scumble/Sue

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Paul DiFilippo wrote:
> 2)  And not to put a damper on all this Wandering Jew motif-hunt,
> but isn't Eugene Sue _more_ famous for his THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS,
> which, as I understand from never reading it (ain't ignorance
> bliss), one of the proto-conspiracy novels of the last century,
> and hence a natural tie-in for TRP?

And as every little Bakhtinian knows, Sue's melodramas affected
strongly Dostoevsky's 'dialogic' novels, too.

Heikki