[literature] do you know your fiction

Quiz continued:

2. A rather shy novelist arrives in New York to launch his first book, only to be greeted by a rioting mob of Black Panthers, old-age pensioners, gay rights activists and feminists after his blood.

3. A leading politician of the French Revolution spends the entirety of this play sitting in a bath, cooling his skin disease, while amongst other incidents, a group of lunatics taunt and persecute him.

4. A hapless cuckolded gentleman becomes an explorer in Brazil, gets hopelessly lost and ill, and is forced to spend the rest of his life reading the complete works of Dickens to the mad old man who rescues him.

5. A wealthy American reaches self-fulfilment blowing up a water tank infested with frogs and is introduced to a pet lion in the den of an African tribal king.

6. A legal clerk working on Wall Street, answers every request from his employer with the gentle rebuttal, 'I should prefer not to'. Eventually this preference not to take part, leads him to give up food and he dies of starvation.

7. The lady of the castle, and mother of the principal character, is forever accompanied by a mass of cats, who swarm around her feet like a sea of white fur.

8. After being told by his lover how much she loves him, this man strangles her with her own long hair, then contemplates the beauty of her corpse.

9. In this novel, Walter expounds on his theory of the connection between names and noses.

10. A Jewish American academic wakes to find himself metamorphosed into a huge mammary gland.

1. The Third Policemen by Flann O'Brien 2. The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe 3. Marat Sade by Peter Weiss 4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 5. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow 6. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville 7. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 8. Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning 9. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 10. The Breast by Philip Roth

# Henry Neville to whom some learned folk attribute the works of Shakespeare.