From certain angles, "Varamo," too, looks like a work of lit crit, but the object of study is purely fictive.
Would you be irritated if your work colleague "lit up" an e-cigarette in close proximity to you?
However, from the opening sentence it becomes clear that this is no ordinary work of lit crit.
His Literary Theory: An Introduction, a punchy synopsis of other writers' ideas first published 20 years ago, must be the best-selling work of lit crit ever.
From certain angles, "Varamo" may look like a work of lit crit, and its antic, now-you-see-me-now-you-don't narrator certainly tries to persuade us that this is what we're reading.
The family, in this case, is the brothers' radically original work, from "Lit Clos" of 2000, a raised, semi-enclosed bed like a bird cage, to "Ploum," a new sofa for Ligne Roset, which they compare to a very ripe fruit.
The duo, headlining on Sunday at Blackpool's Livewire Festival, gave the crowd a taste of their newest work, "Get Lit". .
Gogol was deeply fucked-up from writing Dead Souls, which is one of those rare works of lit in which there is not a single redeeming character.
Indian readers of English can today find homegrown works of chick lit, techie lit, detective fiction, even what the scholar E. Dawson Varughese has called "crick lit" — fiction about cricket.
Then again, it's just as demoralizing going through the gantlet of having your work accepted at lit journals, so maybe there is a parallel".
