Gilbert adair biography
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Entry updated 12 September 2022.
Gilbert adair biography
Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1944-2011) Scottish literary theorist, critic, translator and author, in France 1968-1980, subsequently in the UK. His fiction has some fantasy interest, including his two Sequels by Other Hands for Young Adult readers, Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984) and Peter Pan and the Only Children (1987), respectively sequelling Lewis Carroll and James Barrie (1830-1937); his adult novels – though they engage their protagonists in extreme situations, and explore thin partitions between Cinema and verifiable reality – are not fantastic, though The Death of the Author (1992) teasingly Equipoises between murder mystery and literary theory.
In A Closed Book (1999), a facially mutilated author and his insinuating amanuensis are effectively transformed into each other's Doppelganger. The Evadne Mount trilogy of spoofish detective novels, beginning with The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2006), echoes Agath