Help?

[featherxquill]

Still working on my Yuletide sign-up. I guess I want it to be perfect before I submit it. Dear Yuletide Writer letter forthcoming.

But flist, I have a question for you. My bestie is in the process of looking for books for her exogesis. She sent me this message earlier:

WHAT I NEED: Books which have a "writer" (preferably) or "creative artist" as the main character and this person has a muse which is "living". i.e a real (or percieved to be real) person, with whom they form some sort of relationship.

WHAT I ALREADY HAVE:
Misery, Stephen King, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nobokov, Feast of all Saints, Anne Rice, Perfume, Patrick Suskind, The Collector, John Fowles, Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis.

I can only think of like one or two things, tops. So I thought I'd throw it out to you, o great fountain of knowledge :). Can anyone think of anything?

Comments

[miss-bowtruckle.livejournal.com]

The Dark Half, by King. Or was it by him under Bachman? Had an author at the forefront. Lots of tomfoolery with a character that he'd written that became real...

Not sure if it would work, but it was good

[moon-very-thin.livejournal.com]

Is there a particular era for which she's looking?

Marie Corelli's novels are full of this stuff. A Romance of Two Worlds and Ardath in particular have artists/musicians/poets whose inspiration comes from their astral other half. In Ardath the muse figure becomes embodied. And she plays with lots of ideas as to where inspiration comes from - whether it's from the muse, or helped by the muse or what. But that's trashy Victorian popular fiction.

I can't brain at the moment, but I'll ask around tomorrow and see if anyone comes up with anything :)

[beguiletosmile.livejournal.com]

No further ideas, but I can STRONGLY recommend Patrick Süskind's Perfume! It's a brilliant book - although, I'm not entirely convinced it fits her criteria. She says the main character and their muse must have some kind of relationship, but it's a pretty one-sided fascination in Perfume, with no real ... Emotional reflection, really.

But, it's def one of my favourite books!

[filmfemmenoir.livejournal.com]

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