Textermination

In her latest novel <strong>Textermination</strong> the eminent British novelistcriticChristine BrookeRose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great wor... » 

In her latest novel Textermination the eminent British novelistcriticChristine BrookeRose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great worksof literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. EmmaBovary Emma Woodhouse Captain Ahab Odysseus Huck Finn... all are gatheredfor the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being to meet to discuss to pray fortheir continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins asa grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium with characters fromdifferent times places and genres all battling for respect and assertingtheir own hardwon fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literaryissues as deconstruction multiculturalism and the Salman Rushdie affair thiswild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings intoquestion the value of determining a literary canon at all. «