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

[rich]

malcolm lowry wrote with the help of his wife a screenplay based on
Tender is the Night which is shall we say...different

its like Kubrick's Shining...different considering the source material

rich

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>