Talk:Quentin S. Crisp

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I have added that Shrike was the first I-novel in the English language to Quentin S Crisp's Wikipedia article. This is the explicit importation of a significant literary technique from Japanese into the current major world language, English, and the sort of thing that would be taken note of in the minutia of an academic text; or, to put it differently, 'the English I-novel' is itself a novel concept. That Shrike is an I-novel is easily locatable in Lisa Tuttle's introduction to it and can be independently verified by any specialist in the traditional I-novel writers with sufficiently good English. That Shrike was the first explicit I-novel in English is, I'm afraid, a bit trickier to prove, but, where there are no obvious contenders, I leave it unless someone can find an earlier-published example. I have contacted a number of academics for verification and shall update and when relevant source as replies arrive.

I shall also add some other references, such as to the Spectator article of last year mentioning the author, as well, as time (that stingy old curmudgeon) permits over the next few months.

Since all this looks more, not less, than the credentials of, e.g., many of the genre authors who have untagged pages on here and artist and author articles the tagger of this page himself created (which, and you might think I am being quite cheeky rather than completely sincere with this, I assume adhere to and demonstrate an acceptable bar of allowability), I have removed the 'notability' tag for now.

It looks like this author's page has been very poorly tended over the years. I shall do my best to trim the weeds and plant the flowers of reliable sources—again, as a busy schedule permits—over the coming months.

I hope you're all very very well. FanoftheWayfarerCycle (talk) 16:15, 21 August 2023 (UTC)