To the Hermitage (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm Bradbury
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1773-1993
- Setting: Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Denis Diderot, Catherine the Great, The writer, Bo Luneberg, Jack-Paul Verso, Madame Galina Solange-Stavaronova
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Paris, Eighteenth century, Politicians, Enlightenment, Russia or Russian people, Sweden or Swedish people, Heads of state, Czars
- Locales: Paris, France, St. Petersburg, Russia, Stockholm, Sweden
Long before he died in November, 2000, at age sixty-eight, Malcolm Bradbury had turned the heart condition that had forced, or rather allowed, him to spend his youth reading into one of the most prolific, varied, and influential literary careers in postwar Britain. He wrote fiction, plays, literary criticism, screenplays, and teleplays, and edited volumes of fiction and criticism. Long associated and even confused with his friend, former colleague, and fellow academic-writer-critic David Lodge, he was half of a mythical creature called Brodge, sometimes said to dwell at an equally...
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