Word: fleurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEITHER FLEUR NOR AUTHOR SPARK has any timidity about recounting their stories--We don't know if the novel has any resemblance to Spark's own life. Fleur gives us precious little personal background. Fleur lives alone in a one-room apartment. She spends every free minute working on her first novel, Warrender Chase, named after its hero. Warrender, strangely enough, bears an uncaany resemblance--in all aspects--to Sir Quentin...
...Fleur the writer relishes her exposure to unending inspiration for her novel so much that she exclaims, often, "How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century." Life becomes complicated and less than wonderful when Fleur finally notices the similarities between her novel and her own, real world. By that time no one can tell whether her novel is predicting life or life predicts the outcome of her own work...
...think you, as secretary, Fleur, should take it up with him and report the matter to Sir Quentin...
...Fleur flourishes, finishes her novel, and retrieves it after Sir Quentin steals it because he believes it libelous and very un-funny. She humors Father Egbert. Satan and the rest, continuing to exalt, "How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century...
When one of Sir Quentin's autobiographers commits suicide--as one of her own fictional characters did, Fleur worries about the resemblance to her novel but remains unmoved. And when the other autobiographers may be in danger, she blithely says. "Presumably they all have friends. I suppose they have friends and relations who will notice if they fall ill... They are not infants. I was thinking of my novel...I had no publisher...