literary facts

[Pitti]

Hi,

In this thread you can write about all the facts about authors, books and literature review that you know.

I'll begin.

Georges Perec wrote a 1300 characters long palindrome in the form of a letter to a certain Edna d'Nilu. The letter is read backwards, from the address to the signature.

Georges Perec used in his novel "La disparition"not even the letter e.

To Raymond Queneau's book "One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" to read in full, would require a single person over 190 million years. The special shape of the end rhyme result in 1014 possible combinations of lines of a new, unique sonnet.

[Wolfboy]

Some facts about one of my all time favorire authors: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

● The inspiration for Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' home of Bag End came from Tolkien's aunt's farm of the same name.
● As a child, Tolkien was bit by a large South African tarantula called a baboon spider. (Three guesses as to where the inspiration for Shelob the gigantic spider came from!)
● Tolkien was a member of the Inklings, a group associated with Oxford University. Other famous writers have belonged to this group such as C.S. Lewis (author of the acclaimed "Narnia" series) and Tolkien's own son Christopher, who is mostly acting as the Tolkien Estate's literary executor.

[Pitti]

According to eyewitnesses, Ernest Hemingway drank in his favorite bar Floridita in one evening 16 double frozen daiquiris. This Hemingway drank 1.86 liters of rum, the juice of 32 lemons and 8 grapefruit, and 96 drops of Marashino. And entered on its own two legs on the way home.

F. Scott Fitzgerald began in 1925 in Paris to drink and woke up 10 days later in Brussels, without knowing how he got there.

Honoré de Balzac drank daily 30 to 50 cups of coffee.

[Superpan]

J. M. Barrie's last words were...."I can't sleep."


Alan Moore is an actual magician, as in he has attained a certain occult level or something.  The rumor that he is Rasputin living under an assumed name is still whispered to this day.

[Pitti]

A funny anecdote about G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown, author of crime fiction) and George Bernard Shaw.
G.K. Chesterton have to remarked to his friend Shaw: "To look at you, anyone would think there was a famine in England."
Shaw replied, "To look at you, anyone would think you caused it."

That´s realy funny 

[Historybuff83]

F. Scott Fitzgerald began in 1925 in Paris to drink and woke up 10 days later in Brussels, without knowing how he got there.

Now THAT is a party, my friends

[Stuart]

F. Scott Fitzgerald began in 1925 in Paris to drink and woke up 10 days later in Brussels, without knowing how he got there.

Now THAT is a party, my friends

Or as we call it in Scotland, "breakfast"