I just emailed Terry with a question that has come up in something I’m writing, and he offered the brilliant suggestion that I ask all of you, too.
There are a lot of novels about writers. There aren’t so many novels about writers in which the (real) novelist attempts to recreate his character’s work. I can think of two off the top of my head, but both of them are somewhat anomalous: Nabokov’s Pale Fire, of course, and A. S. Byatt’s Possession (both featuring poetry, interestingly). Neither of these is, strictly speaking, about the writers whose work appears, however. There must be more out there. What am I forgetting–what, that is, that’s good or at least well-known?
Much obliged, dear readers.