“... of love, so that to be beyond the reach of reconciliation and blood-fellowship is to remain anonymous. Quinx takes in a grand celebration of blood-fellowship in the form of the first post-war gypsy festival at Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in the Camargue. Durrell gives no hint that those who gather there must be the lucky survivors of persecution and ...”

“... entails the sacrifice of the writer’s empirical and ‘complacent’ I: it is essentially anonymous. It is not, as with Proust, that the I which writes is another, profounder self than the I which only lives, but that the writer somehow transcends or eludes selfhood by yielding up his poor Ego to language in its pure state. Language is the one form of ...”

“... them a meaning at all. Its subject rather is the positive absence of meaning in the disconnected, anonymous features of modern German life – blocks of flats, café conversations, the loud noise that may or may not be a terrorist bomb. The may or may-not principle is carried far into the actual method of the novel. We know that Ulrich Hargenau, a ...”

“... her new friends: ‘Esmond was hardly allowed to speak as they roared rude remarks past him,’ an anonymous well-wisher is quoted as saying. Her chief interest apart from her parties and Fleming was her husband’s newspaper, which she thought him scarcely fit to run. Discussing a possible new editor with her brother Hugo, who, like Fleming, worked on the ...”

“... great quarterlies by anachronistically resuming, and retaining until the 1970s, the practice of anonymous reviewing. Unlike the Criterion or the New Adelphi, the TLS austerely excluded verse, fiction and causerie (though it did have a chess column). The establishment of the TLS is the overshadowing fact in the history of British literary magazines between ...”

“... than allegations which run in tandem with received opinion. Chris Mullin claims too much for his anonymous bombers. He would have been better advised to claim less, and to fasten on the fact that one of his informers told him the codeword used by the bombers when, too late, they phoned in a warning. No one except the Police and the man who took the call know ...”

“... for the expanding railway age. His first publisher was John Murray the third, who wanted an anonymous Handbook on Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire and insisted on facts, not fancies. Hare regretfully accepted this limitation. Much of his early travelling was done with Maria, by now a prey to hysterical trances. When he was 37 she died and he dropped ...”

“... imaginary enemies and, to his cost, singled out Auberon Waugh, thinking him to be the author of anonymous hostile articles in the Spectator. Waugh had hardly written about Goldsmith, but now he went to town in his inimitable way: ‘I have never met the fellow, as I say, and know practically nothing about him. But I have seen his photograph in the ...”

“... can best help us to understand that it is what Chaucer and Langland have in common with the anonymous art of the Middle Ages, not what sets them apart, that is the source of their ...”

“... on the area is consigned to the dustbin, not least myself: Kelly gleefully unmasks me as the anonymous author of a report from the Dhofar guerrillas in the Sunday Times of March 1970 (the article was, in fact, signed with my own name), and then goes on to berate me for having reported the education campaign being carried out by the guerrillas, which I ...”

“... associated with the name? Trajan’s reply, though it warns against unprovoked persecution and anonymous denunciation, makes it clear: the name was criminal enough. Pliny stands as first witness in Robert Wilken’s The Christians as the Romans saw them, a relaxed survey of some familiar texts and their backgrounds. The exposition is clear and ...”

“... decently private; but the phraseology directly alludes to the tradition and practice of Alcoholics Anonymous. Angels strikingly resembles the freewheeling, good-natured narratives which AA irreverently calls ‘drunkalogues’. In them, members publicly recall their previous lives, and how they were all screwed up by drinking. Former drunks (which Denis ...”

“... masses, tombs and epitaphs, accompanied a new anxiety about Judgment and the afterlife generally. Anonymous burial, the normal lot of all but the rich and powerful, gave way to the desire of more ordinary persons to have some memorial. Death was well on the way to becoming ‘untamed’, and in the third phase the melancholy appropriate to the death of the ...”

“... He sends Gwyn a random copy of the enormously fat Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, with an anonymous note pretending that it mentions him – and it does. He swallows his Larkinesque pride at never having been to America, and accompanies Gwyn on a publishing tour of the States, but his cunning attempts to sway the judges of the ‘Profundity ...”

“... of resentment. Finally, in the wake of the heaped-up inventories, comes the indictment of the anonymous biological life women have been destined to; and here at last Clampitt’s syntax ignites into a whole sentence, as she asks how women relinquished the notion that they had a right to a soul, a ‘thread of fire’, a personal identity: Where is ...”