,
2026 Reading Challenge
Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose’s Followers (101)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Christine Brooke-Rose


Born
in Geneva, Switzerland
January 16, 1923

Died
March 21, 2012

Genre
Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy


Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels. Born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London, she taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and lived for many years in the south of France.

She was married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park; to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz; and briefly to Claude Brooke. She shared the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for Such (1966).

She was also known as a translator from French, in particular of works by Robbe-Grillet.

NYT obituary. ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.85 · 2,066 ratings · 362 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
Amalgamemnon
3.83 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Textermination
3.79 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Xorandor
3.46 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Life, End of
3.82 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Between
3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Christine Brooke-Rose O...
4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Out
3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Such
3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Thru
3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Remake
4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Christine Brooke-Rose…
Quotes by Christine Brooke-Rose  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.”
― Christine Brooke-Rose, Life, End of
8 likes
Like

“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which corresponds to the male situation of experimental writer vs. writer), but also peculiarly more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a male experimental writer. She may, if young, get caught up in a “movement,” like Djuna Barnes, like H.D., like Laura Riding, as someone’s mistress, and then be forgotten, or if old, she maybe “admitted” into a group, under a label, but never quite as seriously considered as the men in that group.”
― Christine Brooke-Rose, Women Writing
tags: women-writers
6 likes
Like

“Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to the power of collective prayer in this our desperate struggle for survival. Some of us have more existence than others, at various times according to fashion. But even this is becoming extremely shadowy & precarious, for we are not read, & when read , we are read badly, we are not lived as we used to be, we are not identified with & fantasized, we are rapidly forgotten. Those of us who have the good fortune to be read by teachers, scholars, & students are not read as we used to be read, but analyzed as schemata, structures, functions within structures, logical & mathematical formulae, aporia, psychic movements, social significances & so forth.”
― Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination
5 likes
Like

Polls

94885
Boasting the Best BURIED Book : 2013

This POLL is KNOT=anonymous. Please continue to vote in the DISCussion thread below. And also bitch and complain that I didn't include your FAVORite Book.

Christine Brooke-Rose -- ANYthing by...!
 
  7 votes, 16.7%

 
  5 votes, 11.9%

Darconville’s Cat -- honorably grandfather'd
 
  4 votes, 9.5%

Women and Men -- VOTE for this one!
 
  4 votes, 9.5%

 
  3 votes, 7.1%

 
  3 votes, 7.1%

 
  3 votes, 7.1%

 
  2 votes, 4.8%

 
  1 vote, 2.4%

 
  1 vote, 2.4%

 
  1 vote, 2.4%

 
  1 vote, 2.4%

ALL OF THE ABOVE, DAMMIT!
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

MORE THAN ONE OF THE ABOVE BUT FEWER THAN ALL OF THE ABOVE!
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

A WRITE=IN ANSWER
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

 
  1 vote, 2.4%

Inferno by Dan Brown: I KEEd I KEEd. Levent Şenyürek's Book of Madness. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

Rising UP and Rising DOWN by Bill
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

impossible object (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 2.4%

Raymond Federman -- the clear winner!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Echo Chamber the echo chamber
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

NONE OF THE ABOVE! I WANNA BE ENTERTAINED!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

SOME OF THE ABOVE!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

A FEW OF THE ABOVE!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Finnegans Wake is the only book you'll ever need to vote for.
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

SEE MY VOTE IN THE THREAD BELOW!!!!!
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

A FUTURE member of the BBC :: Ladies and gEntlemen, Lauren Fairbanks and Sister Carrie.
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

NONE of the above ;; READ'ing BURIED Books is BAD for the econoME.
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Edward Dahlberg's Complete Works
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Orgel Hans Henny Jahnn built.
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

42 total votes
More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
21st Century Lite...: Who is America's greatest living novelist? 122 1913 Jun 19, 2013 05:04AM  
Finnegans Wake Gr...: In the Wake of the Wake 7 73 Mar 13, 2014 07:20AM  
Goodreads Librari...: Author Christine Brooke-Rose 6 15 Jul 21, 2014 06:13PM  
Brain Pain: * Brain Pain 2015 Proposed Reading Schedule choices 68 180 Nov 29, 2014 11:55PM  
500 Great Books B...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Decades, Centuries, and Millenia 8 407 Dec 06, 2014 09:46PM  
500 Great Books B...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Underread 500 GBBW 3 161 Dec 10, 2014 01:00PM  
The Book Club: Books and Authors in the Media 71 115 Jan 14, 2015 01:36PM  
500 Great Books B...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Publisher Folks 1 48 Jul 09, 2015 12:33PM