Loitering with Intent (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1949-1950
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Fleur Talbot, Sir Quentin Oliver, Edwina Oliver, Beryl Tims, Dottie, Solly, Wally
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Power, personal or social, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, Autobiography, Art or artists, 1940’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Truth, Greed, Creative process, London, Truthfulness and falsehood, Theft
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
The beginning of Loitering with Intent hints at the novel’s playful exploration of opposites and the ways in which these oppositions frequently coexist: appearance versus reality, life versus fiction, invention versus truth. Fleur Talbot, the narrator, relates a time when she was sitting in a graveyard, writing a poem. She was unemployed, living in a sparsely furnished bed-sittingroom, let by what she describes as a “swinish” landlord. All this should have been the cause for severe depression, but Fleur remembers that, in fact, her morale was high. As a...
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