The Eyre Affair (Magill’s Literary Annual 2003)
At a glance:
- Author: Jasper Fforde
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1985
- Setting: An alternate-universe Great Britain, particularly London, Swindon, and the People’s Republic of Wales
- Principal Characters: Thursday Next, Colonel Next, Acheron Hades, Felix Tabularasa, Jack Schitt, “Spike” Stoker, Mycroft Next, Polly Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Victor Analogy, Bowden Cable, Edward Rochester
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Literature, 1980’s, Books, England or English people, Women, Detectives, London, Career women, Great Britain, Wales or Welsh people, Crimean War, Puns or punning, Clones or cloning
- Locales: London, England, Earth, alternate versions of, Wales
Welsh novelist Jasper Fforde spent fourteen years working as a cameraman in the film industry before turning his ambitions to the printed page. The Eyre Affair, featuring LiteraTec Thursday Next, is his first novel (a second, Lost in a Good Book, was published in Britain in the summer of 2002 and he is under contract to write two more), and despite its almost compulsively literary frame of reference, the effects of a life in the movies are, for better and worse, quite evident.
The Eyre Affair is one of the latest examples of the trend toward the blurring of...
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