Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature
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A literary biography of the writer Christine Brooke-Rose. It follows her life and works chronologically, from her early years to her PhD on medieval linguistics, through war work at Bletchley Park codebreaking facility, to the rise of the 1950s Hampstead novel and 1960s experimental novel, her relocation to Paris in 1968 (in the aftermath of May 68), her years working alongside poststructuralists and her final emergence as a postmodernist and, briefly, bestselling sci-fi writer. It also deals with her final years and her legacy as one of the earliest writers to understand the importance of the physicality of text and the information revolution.