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* Robert Goldsborough wrote a number of ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'' novels after [[Author Existence Failure|series creator Rex Stout's death]]. The final one features a victim who had [[Continuation|been writing another author's character]]. At one point, Archie Goodwin slams the victim's writing. {{spoiler|The motive for the murder is that said victim plagiarised his last novel.}} |
* Robert Goldsborough wrote a number of ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'' novels after [[Author Existence Failure|series creator Rex Stout's death]]. The final one features a victim who had [[Continuation|been writing another author's character]]. At one point, Archie Goodwin slams the victim's writing. {{spoiler|The motive for the murder is that said victim plagiarised his last novel.}} |
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* ''I Am A Cat'', Natsume Soseki's social satire of late Meiji-era Japan, not only features a major character bearing more than a passing resemblance to the author who comes off about as well as any other character in the book (i.e. not at all), but has a passage in which this character and several others directly bash Soseki's other work. (Since none of these characters are at all likable, it may be that we're supposed to disagree with them, which would make this either a [[Take That]] at critics or a roundabout form of self-praise. It's hard to tell.) |
* ''I Am A Cat'', Natsume Soseki's social satire of late Meiji-era Japan, not only features a major character bearing more than a passing resemblance to the author who comes off about as well as any other character in the book (i.e. not at all), but has a passage in which this character and several others directly bash Soseki's other work. (Since none of these characters are at all likable, it may be that we're supposed to disagree with them, which would make this either a [[Take That]] at critics or a roundabout form of self-praise. It's hard to tell.) |
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] takes a shot at himself in ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''. At a point when the four main characters are polling each other on their favourite authors, one asks about Heinlein. Another promptly snorts and admits to having read ''[[Stranger in |
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] takes a shot at himself in ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''. At a point when the four main characters are polling each other on their favourite authors, one asks about Heinlein. Another promptly snorts and admits to having read ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]''. "My God, the things some writers will do for money!" |
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* [[Edward Lear]] engages in a few pot-shots directed at himself in his nonsense-filled poetry. At least one of his poems is a spot of Self-Deprecation. |
* [[Edward Lear]] engages in a few pot-shots directed at himself in his nonsense-filled poetry. At least one of his poems is a spot of Self-Deprecation. |
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* The loser protagonist of [[A Confederacy of Dunces]] is, when you know his life story, very very clearly based on the author, John Kennedy Toole. |
* The loser protagonist of [[A Confederacy of Dunces]] is, when you know his life story, very very clearly based on the author, John Kennedy Toole. |
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