A Fan's Notes | Characters
The narrator and central character in A Fan's Notes is Frederick Exley, who, although purportedly fictional, is informed by authorial experience as much as by authorial imagination. Critical popularity of this novel owes a great deal to the irony implicit in Exley's double-duty as "fictional" protagonist and "factual" author.
Fred Exley behaves irresponsibly and irrespressibility. He is ambitious, questing — first for fame, then for sanity. Hovering always just above the genius/madness divide, Exley hero-worships, faces his flaws, rails against false promise and seeks solace (or...
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