Posted by andyb on May 22, 2006 at 23:15:01 from 213.122.49.68 user beardbiter.
I notice in the London Review of Books that someone is giving a lecture on the use of names in literature. Perhaps someone could attempt the same for AR. His use of the names of the 'real' Altounyan children suggests one line of investigation; the children's habit of changing 'native' names suggests another. Then there is the use of real place names in the Broads books while in SW we start at the 'real' Pin Mill but travel to Secret Water. The use of real names for fictional characters and the frequent reference to other books suggests the 'intertextuality' of post-modernism. Could we claim AR as a 'premature pomo?'