Rayner's Fans

None yet.

Rayner Heppenstall

Author profile

born

July 27, 1911 in Lockwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom

died

May 23, 1981

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

influences

Raymond Roussel

About this author

edit data

John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.

Heppenstall's first novel The Blaze of Noon, was neglected at the time. Much later, in 1967, it received an Arts Council award. He was Francophile in literary terms, and his non-fiction writing reflects his tastes.

Critical attention has linked him to the French nouveau roman, in fact as an anticipator, or as a writer of the "anti-novel". Several critics (including, according to his diaries, Helene Cixous) have named Heppenstall in this connection. He is sometimes therefore grouped with Alain Robbe-Grillet, or associated with other British experimentalists: Anthony Burgess, B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Alan Burns, Stefan Themerson and Eva Figes. The Connectin...more

combine editions
Books by Rayner Heppenstall

Average rating: 4.05 · 263 ratings · 22 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Pier 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Connecting Door 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Reflections On The Newgate Calendar 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Blaze of Noon 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fourfold Tradition: Notes on the French and English Literatures, with Some Ethnological and Historical Asides 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Architecture of Truth: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronnet in Provence by Rayner Heppenstall, Francois Cali (Editor), Lucien Herve (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bluebeard and After 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1972	My rating:
	Four Absentees: Eric Gill, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas & J. Middleton Murry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Raymond Roussel (Calderbooks) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Shearers: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

More books by Rayner Heppenstall…

Rayner's Fans

Rayner Heppenstall

Author profile

combine editionsBooks by Rayner Heppenstall

combine editions
Books by Rayner Heppenstall