Limonov was born in 1943 into the Ukrainian working class (his father a low-level secret policeman, his mother a munitions factory worker), and his social, literary and political trajectory – to Moscow then New York and Paris and back to Moscow – has been dramatic, even melodramatic.
But her fellow novelist Sarah Waters detects a more worrying narrative trajectory in Mantel's literary evolution.
The trajectory of Hughes's literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety.
This book places its subject in his historical and literary context and traces Ellison's trajectory from his beginnings in segregated Oklahoma City, where he grew up with American apartheid still firmly in place.
As literary culture continues on its downhill trajectory -- sliding from the heights of serious thinking to the crass demands of the bottom line -- it becomes ever harder to believe in that not too distant past where intellectuals qualified as contenders for something other than dusty symposiums and the mingy rewards of academic prestige.
To everyone's surprise, Julian became a number-one bestseller in the summer of 1964, refuelling his trajectory through the Anglo-American literary jet set.
The play, which was written a year before September 11 , 2001 has come to New York via the Moscow Art Theatre and London's Royal Court — a trajectory that announces both its literary pedigree and a certain stately pace.
Just as Dadaism, in its literary nature, was not directly part of the formal trajectory set by Barr, so Pop art defied Greenberg's formal trajectory toward abstraction, best embodied by the work of the Abstract Expressionists.
The genre of biography itself was transformed by the Napoleonic challenge, and no modern treatment of his life can easily avoid responding in some way to the narrative trajectory established so firmly by the literary industry that grew up around his name.
