Bernard Clare

Bernard Clare

Author	James T. Farrell
Publisher	Vanguard Press
Publication date	1946

Bernard Clare is a 1946 novel by James T. Farrell. It was the first novel in a trilogy following the writer Bernard Carr. ^[1] The character's name was changed from Clare to Carr following a libel suit from a man named Bernard Clare. ^[2] Farrell won the libel case, with the court holding that it was "inconceivable that any sensible person could assume...that it purported to refer to the life and career of the [real] Bernard Clare" ^[3] The book follows a twenty-one year old novelist who moves from Chicago to New York and becomes involved in radical politics. ^[4] Unlike the protagonists of the Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill novels, Bernard Carr was the first character Farrell had written who was also a novelist and involved with literature. ^[5]

External links

• Matthiessen, F. O. (May 12, 1946). "James T. Farrell's Human Comedy". The New York Times . pp. 120, 137.
• Book Review Digest 1946

References

1. Branch, Edgar M. (1963). James T. Farrell. University of Minnesota Press. p. 29. ISBN   9781452910475.
2. Husband, Janet G. (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 267. ISBN   9780838909676.
3. Beil, Norman (1984). The Writer's Legal and Business Guide. Arco Publishing. p. 91. ISBN   9780668055796.
4. Wilkinson, Pamela, ed. (2014). Major Characters In American Fiction: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 1500 of the Most Influential Fictional Creations of American Writers. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN   9781466881938.
5. Rosenfeld, Isaac (1988). Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader. Wayne State University Press. p. 55. ISBN   9780814318805.