Christine Brooke-Rose: The Brooke-Rose Omnibus

God x gods γ Gogol, Nikolai ß— Gombrowicz, Witold γ + Gonne, Maud x Graves, Robert x Greimas, A.J. ß + Guinevere ϑ + Gulliver ß + Haimon x Hamlet ß Hawthorne, Nathaniel ϑ+ Hegel, G. W. F. a Heidegger, Martin γ Héloise x Héloise, la nouvelle ϑ — henchman, lanky ϑ— hero, the ϑ — Hjelmslev, Louis x Homer x Hubert ϑ— Husserl, E. γ — idyll, the ϑ + Institution, the ϑ— Irigaray, Luce x Isabel ϑ— Iseult ϑ Isherwood, Christopher ϑ+ Isis ϑ Jakobson, Roman ß James Henry γ — Jocasta, Queen ϑ + Jones, Eliza ϑ Jove x Julian x Julien (St) le Pauvre γ Kaplan, Myra γ + Karamazov, Dmitri γ Keats, John x Kermode, Frank x Kreutzer, Professor ϑ— Kristeva, Julia ß + La Bocca, Professor x Lacan, Jacques ß + lady, the linguistic x lady, of the left ϑ + Lancelot ϑ Laretino, Stavro x La Tour, G. de x lawbearer, the ϑ— Leporello ß— Lévi-Strauss, Claude γ + Littlebrown, Professor ϑ — Littlebrown-Fitzjohn, Claire ϑ— logos, h mo γ — logos, unvoiced x lover of the moment a + Maddy x Maeterlinck x Maître, le γ + Malatesta, Paolo di γ Mallarmé, Stéphane x Mandel, Michael ϑ man with blue guitar, the a man from Porlock, the γ Manzoni, Alessandro x Marco x Marcuse, Herbert a— Marika x Marner, Silas x Marx, Karl a + Master marksman of moment γ — Masters, Christopher x Masters, Veronica x Maurice ϑ— Mélisande ϑ — Medaware, Dr. Gregory ϑ— Mercury γ Merteuil, Mme de ϑ+ Midas, King ϑ –

Milton, John x Miriam ϑ — mistress of the moment a + Molière γ Moses x Mother x Musset’s Muse x Narrator(s), the x Newman, Francesca ϑ Ngu-Rey, Professor Chou ϑ — Nourennin, Ali ß + Novello, Ivor x Odysseus ß + Oedipus, King x Olaf ϑ — Oliver ϑ — Orion ß — Orpheus x Oscar ϑ — O’Shaunessy, Kathleen x Ottavio, Don x overhead projector γ — Pamela ϑ — Pankhurst, Mrs. γ + Paris Telephone Exchange x Penelope ϑ Phaedrus γ — Phallusman, the a + Philanthropos, Professor ϑ — picaroon, the a— Plato ß — Pleiades x Polanska, Renata ϑ — Polenta, Francesca da a Ponte, L. da a Pound, Ezra ß prince disguised as poor younger son x princesse lointaine x Propp, Vladimir ϑ — Proust, Marcel x Pygmalion γ — Quipu γ Ra ϑ Racine, Jean ϑ— Rachmaninov, Sergei x Ram, the x Rastier, Francois γ + Rastignac ϑ — Rustaveli, Choto x Ruwet, Nicolas ß Sade, Marquis de ß+ Sand, Georges x Santores, Armel x Santores, Mrs. see Toren ϑ Saussure, F. de γ— Scheherezade a — Scholasticus, Homo ϑ— second pair of eyes a— Semeiosis, Professor ϑ— Shakespeare, William ß Shandy, Tristram ß + Snoopy a Socrates ß— Sophisto, Professor ϑ— Sophists, the ϑ— Sordello, di Mantovana x Soul, book of the x Stein, Gertrude ϑ — Sterne, Laurence x Stevens, Wallace ß+ Stradiver, Paul ϑ— Streisand, Barbra ϑ Student Body, the a + Su Fu, Lin x ϑ— γ + Swift, Jonathan γ + Tancredi, Salvatore ϑ + Tariel ϑ—

Text, the x Textivores, the ϑ — Thamar, Queen x Thamus a — Thanatos a + Thor x Thoth γ + Todorov, Tzvetan ß Toren, Larissa x Toren, 3 illegitimate children x Tove, Jeremy ϑ — trait-or, the ϑ — Tristan ϑ — Troy, Helen of ϑ + Uang Iu p‘uh x Underwood, Dr. ϑ — Uranus ϑ — Valery, Paul x Valincour x Valmont, Comte de a — Valmorin, Louise de x Victoria, Queen x Virgil ϑ — Vitruvius, Pollio, Marcus x Vivien ϑ — Vizir, the ϑ — vox populi a Wagner, Richard γ Webb, Miss Helen ϑ — Weintraub, Julia ϑ Wimsatt, W.K. ϑ + Woolf, Virginia γ — Yorick, poor a +

(Portraits by the Student Body)

Oh keep them out of it the students have dispersed from the institution of learning how to become a parasite upon a text nobody reads passed on from generation to must go on the other scene since the institution of unlearning has been closed down by an obituary act of authority due to textual disturbances.

So that you ndrive away into the nightwiddling along the transistor of disembodied voiceless logos watching the hoops that dance red amber white green mauve eyes made up by the disappeared narrator in a mere vehicle now deprived of pilot who would not stay for an answer

CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE was born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. She worked in Intelligence at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and as a freelance reviewer and writer during the 1950s and 60s. She is the author of a number of works of academic criticism and translations, as well as novels, one of which, Such, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966. Christine Brooke-Rose taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and now lives in the south of France.