Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (born 16 January 1923) is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.

Biography

Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father and American-Swiss mother. She was brought up mainly in Brussels, and educated there, at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. During World War II she worked at Bletchley Park as a WAAF in intelligence, later completing her university degree. She then worked for a time in London as a literary journalist and scholar.

She has been married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park; to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz; and briefly to Claude Brooke. She shared the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for Such (1966). On separating from Pietrkiewicz in 1968 she took a position at the University of Paris, Vincennes.

She is known also as a translator from the French, in particular of Robbe-Grillet. As of 2004 she lives in the south of France.

Works

• Gold (1955) poem
• The Languages of Love (1957) novel
• The Sycamore Tree (1958) novel
• A Grammar of Metaphor (1958) criticism
• The Dear Deceit (1960) novel
• The Middlemen: A Satire (1961)
• Out (1964) novel
• Such (1966) novel
• Between (1968) novel
• Go When You See the Green Man Walking (1970) short stories
• A ZBC of Ezra Pound (1971) criticism
• Thru (1975) novel
• A Structural Analysis of Pound's Usura Canto: Jakobson's Method Extended and Applied to Free Verse (1976) criticism
• A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic (1981) criticism
• Amalgamemnon (1984) novel
• Xorandor (1986) novel
• Verbivore (1990) novel
• Stories, Theories, and Things (1991) literary theory
• Textermination (1991) novel
• Next (1993) novel
• Remake (1996) autobiographical novel
• Subscript (1999) novel
• Poems, Letters, Drawings (2000)
• Invisible Author: Last Essays (2002)
• Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (2002) with Ellen Weil
• Life, End of (2006) autobiographical novel
• Brooke-Rose Omnibus (2006)

Further reading

• Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction (1994) Sarah Birch
• Utterly other discourse : the texts of Christine Brooke-Rose (1995) Ellen J. Friedman and Richard Martin

External links

• Christine Brooke-Rose Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

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Name	Brooke-Rose, Christine
Alternative names	Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	16 January 1923
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