Literary Allusions
There is wide speculation that the book is, at least in part, based on real life, and that the Zenia character is based loosely on Barbara Amiel, the real-life journalist and wife of Conrad Black. Among the others who have been cited as models are the writers Gwendolyn MacEwen, and Marian Engel.
Title references Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, The Robber Bridegroom.
Read more about this topic: The Robber Bride
Famous quotes containing the word literary:
“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as “spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)