Fwd: Malcolm Bradbury

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Among a whole lot of other things, MB was also 
the guy who wrote, in his influential _Modern 
American Novel_, that "Pynchon's novels are
central to contemporary American writing."

RIP,

Heikki

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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:25:37 +0100
From: Jaap Verheul <Jaap.Verheul at let.uu.nl>
To: eaas-l at let.uu.nl
Subject: EAAS INFO: Malcolm Bradbury

>From: Chris Bigsby <C.Bigsby at uea.ac.uk>
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:07:18 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

It is with deep regret that I have to tell all his friends 
across Europe and beyond that Malcolm Bradbury died this 
Monday afternoon.  Though he had been ill, it was assumed 
that he would slowly recover.  His death thus came as a 
complete and devastating shock.  As a novelist and a 
critic, as a man who, through the creative writing 
programme at UEA, launched the career of so many others, he 
helped shape the world we inhabit.  He was a major force in 
American studies.  But, beyond that, he was a sharply 
intelligent, deeply witty man, who was never happier than 
talking to his friends around the world.  He was fiercely 
committed to education and to literature, and fought for 
those causes.  At the moment, though, it is that other 
Malcolm we at UEA are thinking of, the delightful companion 
and irreplacable friend.

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Chris Bigsby
c.bigsby at uea.ac.uk