 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(June 2014) |
 Cover of 1989 paperback edition | |
| Author | R. M. Koster |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 438 pp |
| ISBN | 0-393-30648-8 |
| OCLC | 19630176 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3561.O84 D5 1989 |
The Dissertation is a novel by R. M. Koster, part of the Tinieblas trilogy.
The book is a mock-PhD thesis, written by the son of the dictator of Tinieblas, recounting his father's rise and fall in a satire of academic prose, while the footnotes narrate the sad life of the doctoral candidate, in the manner of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire .
The Dissertation makes an appearance in the 2013 Stephen King novel Joyland where it is being read by the character Annie Ross. [1]
