Academic novels
fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu
fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu
Thu Feb 6 16:10:04 CST 1997
I skipped a few postings so sorry if this is a repeat, but how about
Lucky Jim?
Bob Fuhrel
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Subject: Academic novels
Author: John Boylan <AP201165 at BROWNVM.brown.edu> at SMTP-CCSN
Date: 2/6/97 12:44 PM
Besides 'Pale Fire', a great novel, Nabokov also wrote 'Pnin', a bril-
liant one, also set in a university (Cornewellian). Poignant and very
funny.
Hey, and don't forget John Barth's 'Giles Goat Boy', the academic
novel to end all academic novels, in which the university is the
universe.
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