| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
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What is a "memoir d'outre tombe"? A novel I read recently has
a blurb on its back cover which reads, "The author has succeeded in
writing a _memoir d'outre tombe_ ..."
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| 908.1 | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Aug 09 1991 01:47 | 3 | |
A novel the author intended to be published after his death?
Or perhaps "I, Claudius".
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| 908.2 | SOS6::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Fri Aug 09 1991 11:18 | 14 | |
Re .0: In the middle of last century, French romantic well-known writer
Fran�ois-Ren� de Chateaubriand wrote his memoirs, but he didn't want
them to be published before his death. As he also was in dire need of
money, he sold them to a publisher, on condition that he would wait
till his death to publish the book, under the title "M�moires
d'Outre-Tombe" (memoirs from beyond the grave). Actually, as the laws
protecting the writers were not at the time what they are now and as
the publisher was dishonest, he released the book immediately and
Chateaubriand looked a bit ridiculous in the process.
I think that in the US, Robert Anson Heinlein did something of the
sort recently under the title "Grumbles from the grave", or something
of the sort, but as the editor was his widow, he was more successfull
in delaying the publication till after his death.
Denis.
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| 908.3 | darn | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Fri Aug 09 1991 19:20 | 7 |
I was hoping it meant something like "strange gravestone memos."
Then I could have listed my favorite, which is:
"I expected this but not so soon."
JP
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