Brooke-Rose, Christine (1923–)

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Brooke-Rose, Christine (1923–)

British novelist, poet and literary critic. Name variations: Christine Brooke Rose. Born Christine Frances Evelyn Rose, Jan 16, 1923, in Geneva, Switzerland; dau. of Alfred Northbrook Rose (died 1934) and Evelyn Blanche (Brooke) Rose (became a Bendictine nun, Mother Anselm); Somerville College, BA, 1949, MA, 1953; University College, London, PhD, 1954; m. Rodney Ian Shirley Bax, 1944 (div. 1948); m. Jerzy Peterkiewicz (Polish poet and novelist), 1948 (sep. 1968); m. Claude Brooke, 1981 (div. 1982).

During WWII, worked at Bletchley Park in British Women's Auxiliary Air Force; moved to Paris (1968) and became teacher of Anglo-American literature at University of Paris VIII; early novels, which are mostly satirical, include The Languages of Love (1957) and The Middlemen: A Satire (1961); influenced by French postmodern novels (1960s), wrote Out (1964), Such (1966) and Between (1968), as well as her science-fiction novels, Amalgamemnon (1984), Xorandor (1986), Verbivore (1990) and Textermination (1991), which form a loose quartet; also wrote literary criticism, including A Grammar of Metaphor (1958), A ZBC of Ezra Pound (1971), A Structural Analysis of Pound's Usura Canto (1976) and Stories, Theories, and Things (1991).

See also Sarah Birch, Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction (Oxford U. Press, 1994).

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