Help? on literary trends

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

On a fact-findinng mission...

Also, if there's some sort of protocol here about asking questions, please let me know.

A bit of an odd question, but here goes:

I need to find out (1) what literary writing styles were trendy in late 70s UK; and (2) what types of books the lads were reading during the series. I know a few have been mentioned, but am not sure of what beyond Ivan Denisovich.

"Literary writing styles" could be stream of consciousness, post-post modernism, deconstructism, something else: it just has to be *trendy,* what a writer looking for publicity / audience over quality might have been aiming for. I'd expect it to be dead by now. :D

These two things - (1) vs (2) - should be mutually exclusive.

Didn't find anything on little_details, but will check again.

Thanks ~ :D

Comments

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

"Your friend Harold Robbins." Didn't Cowley say that to Bodie?
Of course that would be popular fiction, not literary.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Cool - thanks for that, I actually don't remember hearing that one!

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

It's in the episode where Bodie breaks into that lady's house and pretends it was to steal a couple of fivers from the drawer. Slush Fund, I think? :-D

He also drinks vodka and bullion (sp?). A regular connoisseur our Bodie. ;)