"Not, perhaps, quite the experience St Anthony might have hoped for me, but illuminating nonetheless": allusion in Robert Dessaix's Night Letters.
| Publisher | English Association |
| Publication | Southerly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0038-3732 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2007-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Dante Alighieri |
| Person | Works | Dante Alighieri |
| Person | Works | Robert Dessaix |
| Author | n/a | NOEL HENRICKSEN |
Robert Dessaix's Night Letters teems with talk of authors and their books, a strikingly diverse and cosmopolitan crowd including Lao-Tzu and Bruce Chatwin, Sufic sages and post-structuralist theorists, Joseph Addison and Vikram Seth, Simon Schama and C.V. Mosby. (1) Writers like the "uncharismatic" Patricia Highsmith (28); Salman Rushdie, with his "scurrying wit", his "passion for spinning stories and running off in unexpected directions" (105); Raju, the obscure poet from Mysore, with his love poems on red paper, urban verse on yellow and rural on green (17): each has a walk-on part...
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