RB/7 - Box RB/7
Reference code
RB/7
Level of description
File
Title
Box RB/7
Quantity & Format
1 box Mixed
Scope and content
A4 Box file, green.
DAMASCUS, 1996-2002
- Supporting statement for the Arts Council Award. ‘DAMASCUS – work in progress’. [1996/97?] (1 leaf).
- Announcement of the Arts Council of England Writers’ Awards 1996/97 for which RB won an award for fiction.
- Statement by RB relating to his interest ‘in the way truthfulness of expression is compromised in a second language by the limits of linguistic ability, and how this can be exploited in a narrative context’. RB hopes to explore the feasibility of writing a parallel novel in French; and to follow the seminar courses on Publishing and Modernist theory. (1 leaf).
- Handwritten notes with lists of the nouns taken from The Times and used in the novel. Shows the writing process and practical construction of the novel.
- Partial proofs.
- Jackets.
- Jacket quotes.
- Press-cuttings.
- Reviews.
- Marketing plan of Flamingo (Harper Collins Publishers).
- Correspondence: with agency Curtis Brown, Arvon Foundation, Arcade Publishing, The Turman-Morrissey Company - who turn down the making of a film of DAMASCUS, Harry Mathews (American writer and translator), Birmingham Readers & Writers Festival, Howard Erskine-Hill, Rapture TV of Norwich, Avon Books (USA), and Association Georges Perec.
- Portrait photos of RB ©Caroline Forbes.
Other:
Publicity leaflet detailing RB and Andrew Cowan’s appearance at the Guardian Hay Festival, 2002.
DAMASCUS, 1996-2002
- Supporting statement for the Arts Council Award. ‘DAMASCUS – work in progress’. [1996/97?] (1 leaf).
- Announcement of the Arts Council of England Writers’ Awards 1996/97 for which RB won an award for fiction.
- Statement by RB relating to his interest ‘in the way truthfulness of expression is compromised in a second language by the limits of linguistic ability, and how this can be exploited in a narrative context’. RB hopes to explore the feasibility of writing a parallel novel in French; and to follow the seminar courses on Publishing and Modernist theory. (1 leaf).
- Handwritten notes with lists of the nouns taken from The Times and used in the novel. Shows the writing process and practical construction of the novel.
- Partial proofs.
- Jackets.
- Jacket quotes.
- Press-cuttings.
- Reviews.
- Marketing plan of Flamingo (Harper Collins Publishers).
- Correspondence: with agency Curtis Brown, Arvon Foundation, Arcade Publishing, The Turman-Morrissey Company - who turn down the making of a film of DAMASCUS, Harry Mathews (American writer and translator), Birmingham Readers & Writers Festival, Howard Erskine-Hill, Rapture TV of Norwich, Avon Books (USA), and Association Georges Perec.
- Portrait photos of RB ©Caroline Forbes.
Other:
Publicity leaflet detailing RB and Andrew Cowan’s appearance at the Guardian Hay Festival, 2002.
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