OBITUARY : Christine Brooke-Rose

Thursday April 26, 2012

OBITUARY : Christine Brooke-Rose
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Christine Brooke-Rose, who has died aged 89, began her career as an author
conventionally enough in the 1950s by writing four accomplished but
orthodox novels; but in 1964, following a serious illness, she published
Out, an experimental novel of the sort unlikely to feature in any WH Smith
summer promotion..../snip/


...At the age of 18 Christine joined the WAAF and, due to her language
skills, soon found herself transferred to Bletchley Park to translate
transcriptions of decoded German messages. In a fictionalised memoir,
Remake (1996), she evoked her growing fascination with language and the
way it conveyed the alien nature of the enemy viewpoint :
"Einsatzbereitsschaftbericht, Einsatzmeldung, Einsatzbefehl, from Keitel
to Kesselring, from Kesselring to Rommel ... the otherness of the other
learned young."

Christine Brooke-Rose had arrived at Bletchley with only a school
certificate, but the experience of working with some of the country's       
greatest minds changed her outlook, and she eventually left to take up a
place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read English. After graduating she
transferred to University College, London, to study for a doctorate. A
Grammar of Metaphor ( 1958 ), a critical study of medieval English poets,   
grew from this work...../snip/

Christine Brooke-Rose, born January 16 1923, died March 21 2012


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/9227040/Christine-Brooke-Rose.html

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3396699.ece