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31. Richard T Kelly in The Independent: Doctor Forrest’s debt to Dostoyevsky
In today’s Independent I write on The Brothers Karamazov for the paper’s Book of a Lifetime slot – an opportunity I’m hugely grateful to have been afforded – and therein I wind my way round to the following remarks: “The … Continue reading
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13. David Peace commends ‘Doctor Forrest’
David Peace is, of course, the widely and ardently admired author of the ‘Red Riding Quartet’ – 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1983- and of GB84, The Damned United, Tokyo Year Zero and Tokyo Occupied City. Earlier this year he read … Continue reading
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2. Baudelaire’s satanic majesty
One of the main characters in Doctor Forrest, a young woman called Eloise Keaton, is a hardcore devotee of French poetry and of Charles Baudelaire in particular, above all his immortal/immemorial collection Les Fleurs du Mal. The book is, one … Continue reading
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