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

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Thank you, I didn't know about this!
 
Here comes the book link:
 
http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=1474
 
Kai

 
 
>
> 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
> 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
>>>
>>