Malcolm Bradbury on Norfolk

Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 16 13:14:52 CDT 2006


'A powerful, indeed Umberto Eco-like version of historical reconstruction 
appeared in Lawrence Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary (1992), an admirably 
learned novel where an eighteenth century project of writing a classical 
dictionary is interrupted by mysterious global plots (to do with the East 
India Company), a vast cast of characters spread across the world, and 
various Gothic horrors.'

(The Modern Novel, p. 406)

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