Strange Names/ "Tender is the Night" [1934]

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

For US-American literature it's rather Fitzgerald, no?
 
Cf. Dick Diver vs. Tommy Barban (in "Tender is the Night")
 
Incredible novel, btw, that I recently re-read and about 
which I think that its influence on Pynchon is underrated.
 
Think of the scene early on in the movie studio or sing 
along the following song:
 
"There was a young lady from hell,
Who jumped at the sound of a bell,
Because she was bad - bad - bad,
She jumped at the sound of a bell,
>From hell (BOOMBOOM)
>From hell (TOOTTOOT)
There was a young lady from hell --" 
 
Now everybody -
 
 
>
> ``No, not at all,'' says Lethem. ``First of all, the grandfather of strange
> character names is not Pynchon or Vonnegut. It's Dickens. That for me is the
>