Bernard Clare

Bernard Clare
AuthorJames T. Farrell
PublisherVanguard Press
Publication date1946

Bernard Clare is a 1946 novel by James T. Farrell. It was the first novel in a trilogy following the writer Bernard Carr. The character's name was changed from Clare to Carr following a libel suit from a man named Bernard Clare. Farrell won the libel case, with the court holding that it was "inconceivable that any sensible person could assume...that it purported to refer to the life and career of the [real] Bernard Clare" The book follows a twenty-one year old novelist who moves from Chicago to New York and becomes involved in radical politics. Unlike the protagonists of the Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill novels, Bernard Carr was the first character Farrell had written who was also a novelist and involved with literature.

References

  1. ↑ Branch, Edgar M. (1963). James T. Farrell. University of Minnesota Press. p. 29. ISBN 9781452910475. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. ↑ Husband, Janet G. (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 267. ISBN 9780838909676.
  3. ↑ Beil, Norman (1984). The Writer's Legal and Business Guide. Arco Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 9780668055796.
  4. ↑ Wilkinson, Pamela, ed. (2014). Major Characters In American Fiction: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 1500 of the Most Influential Fictional Creations of American Writers. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781466881938.
  5. ↑ Rosenfeld, Isaac (1988). Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader. Wayne State University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780814318805.
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