Babel

TitleBabel
Year for Search1969
AuthorsBurns, Alan(1929-2013)
Pagination159 pp.
Date Published1969
PublisherCalder & Boyars
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsAustralian author, English author, Male author
Annotation

Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.

Additional Publishers

An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.

Holding Institutions

NLS

Author Note

The English author (1929-2013) also lived and taught creative writing in Australia and the U.S.

Full Text

1969 Burns, Alan (1929-2013). Babel. London: Calder & Boyars. An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27. 159 pp. NLS

Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam. The English author also lived and taught creative writing in Australia and the U.S.