Ten Favorite Novels About Real Writers

(alphabetically by writer—not the one who wrote it, but the one it’s about)

 

  • Charles Baudelaire*: Crossings by Alex Landragin

  • Italo Calvino**: The Neighborhood by Gonçalo M. Tavares

  • Lewis Carroll: Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe

  • Emily Dickinson: The Lady in White by Christian Bobin

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg

  • Gustave Flaubert: Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

  • Carlos Fuentes: The Literary Conference by César Aira

  • Federico García Lorca: The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas

  • Désiré Nisard: Demolishing Nisard by Éric Chevillard

  • Pliny the Elder: Awake: Sublunar Visions and Temptations by Harald Voetmann

* and Walter Benjamin

** and Roberto Juarroz, Karl Kraus, Henri Michaux, Paul Valéry, and Robert Walser

— June 27, 2024


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