Askwith
(herself a published writer) defended NRS
in the columns of The Times soon after the latter's death. She ranked The Delicate Situation as a novel likely to survive, and likened it to other works...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rose Tremain
This bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel dares comparison with a classic of the genre by emphasising the admiration of its thirteen-year-old protagonist, Lewis Little, for Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
. When RT
comments on the...
Friends, Associates
T. S. Eliot
In Paris he made his first literary friendships, with Alain-Fournier
and Jean Verdenal
.