Unfutz on Auctorial descriptives
Kafkaesque, Phildickian, Hemingwayesque, Orwellian, Joycean, Shavian, Ballardian, Shakespearean, Dickensian, Jamesian, Faulknerian, Brechtian, Pinteresque, Mametesque, Lovecraftian, Tolkienesque (or Tolkienian), Proustian, Seussian.
Any others?
Yes, there is Bataillean and Bretonian, Pirandellian, Beatlesque, Sadean (not to mention sadistic), Borgesian, Bellmeresque, Byronic (an interesting one because of its -ic-suffix), Freudian and platonic.
Once an author has been ‘adjectivized’ he has become a stereotype. Nevertheless, it is the ultimate compliment and the surest sign of longevity.
Wikipedia has:
Auctorial descriptives are a series of adjectives based on authors’ names, such as Kafkaesque, Brechtian, Joycean, Orwellian, Pinteresque, Sadistic/Sadism, Machiavellian, and Draconian.
More?
Borges and his successors: the Borgesian impact on literature and the arts … The Borgesian Cyclopaedia. “Being a Virtual Reference to the World of Jorge …
http://www.borgesian.com/
There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture, … It was Beckettian in that Pinter sat in a wheelchair, with a rug over his …
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1661931,00.html
Just for starters.
David,
How could I have forgotten Borgesian?
This “There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture, …” makes me lol
Jan
And Wikipedia has more here, they are actually called proper adjectives and eponymous adjectives
“Auctorial” specifically refers to authors (it’s a rather obscure word I came across some years ago and latched on to because of its oddness — I’m always pleasantly suprised on those rare occasions when I come across it again), so it’s a specific case of eponymous adjectives. “Auctorial descriptive” was, I think, my choice of expression, I don’t think I’d see in elsewhere. I suppose “auctorial adjective” would have been better.
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This is always a great one Don Quixotic
(ps. fantastic blog just found it)
wow. forgot the link: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03/28/why-we-read-don-quixote/