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‘Savagely comic... written with real passion’ Sunday Times — Terry Eagleton is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Wadham College, Oxford. His books include THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM, AGAINST THE GRAIN, WALTER BENJAMIN, and CRITICISM AND IDEOLOGY. TERRY EAGLETON Saints and Scholars FUTWA A Futura Book Copyright © Terry Eagleton 1987 First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Verso This edition published by Futura Publications in 1990 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. ISBN 0 7088 4387 5 Reproduced, printed and bound in Great Britain by BPCC Hazell Books Ltd Member of BPCC Ltd Aylesbury, Bucks, England Futura Publications A Division of Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd 66—73 Shoe Lane London EC4P 4AB A member of Maxwell Pergamon Publishing Corporation plc ian t | 2 ie Fay ae eee This novel is not entirely fantasy. Nikolai Bakhtin, elder brother of the celebrated Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, was indeed a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the foremost English- language philosopher of the century. Wittgenstein did indeed live for a while in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland, although at a later time than suggested here. Most of the rest is invented.
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