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As a teen-ager, I went through a series of literary obsessions with different writers.
When I was a kid, one of my first literary obsessions was the 1953 sci-fi classic "Childhood's End," by Arthur C. Clarke.
He was the first of my literary obsessions, but he set the terms of what I talked about when I talked about loving an author.
Orwell was to regard his father as a remote and ancient figure; his father in turn found his son's literary obsessions baffling.
The literary obsessions are important, since it turns out that the principal target of the satire is not French Islam — which is really a bystander that gets, at most, winged — but the spinelessness of the French intellectual class, including the Huysmans-loving narrator.
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Barnes's narrator also allows him to hint at a story to explain the literary obsession.
This project has been Finnegan's literary obsession for a very long time.
The book folds back upon itself with a pop-cultural reflexivity that's among Wallace's own subjects of literary obsession.
It was not literary obsession that drove Julian McPhillips '68 to create a museum honoring the most spellbinding couple of the Jazz Age.
He pursues the dead writer as a solace for his own disappointments; his literary obsession is, as the epigraph implies, a personal matter.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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