Query: fiction books about literature, but not society
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Reception of Derrida
The James Bond Dossier
Taipei (novel)
Tree and Leaf
Pour un nouveau roman
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
The Blade of Conan
Evidence from documents: The Reception of Derrida: '''''The Reception of Derrida: Translation and Transformation''''' (Palgrave, 2006) by Michael Thomas explores the cross-cultural reception of Jacques Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with the word deconstruction. In response to this cultural and academic phenomenon, the book examines how Derrida's own understanding of translation and inheritance illuminate the 'translation and transformation' of his own works. Positioned against the misreadings of deconstruction, the book traces the relationship between Derrida's concern with the ethico-political dimension of deconstruction and an authorial legacy.


Years after his death, Derrida's legacy is still being debated in the United States and other countries.
The James Bond Dossier: The James Bond Dossier''''' (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest.
Taipei (novel): fiction: He is one of the few fiction writers around who engages with contemporary life, rather than treating his writing online as existing in opposition to or apart from the hallowed analog space of the novel.
about literature: Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.
Tree and Leaf: '''''Tree and Leaf''''' is a small book published in 1964, containing two works by J. R. R. Tolkien:
* a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories" (originally published in 1947 in ''Essays Presented to Charles Williams'')
* an allegorical short story called "Leaf by Niggle" (originally published in the ''Dublin Review'' in 1945).
Pour un nouveau roman: He takes issue with the common idea that the 19th century bourgeois novel (exemplified by Balzac) is the benchmark by which all novels must be judged.
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos: The book takes pains to establish whether each Lovecraft story "belongs to the Cthulhu Mythos" or not.
The Blade of Conan: '''''The Blade of Conan''''' is a 1979 collection of essays edited by L. Sprague de Camp, published in paperback by Ace Books. The material was originally published as articles in George H. Scithers' fanzine ''Amra''. The book is a companion to Ace's later volume of material from ''Amra'', ''The Spell of Conan'' (1980). Most of the material in the two volumes, together with some additional material, was reprinted from three previous books issued in hardcover by Mirage Press; de Camp's collection ''The Conan Reader'' (1968), and the de Camp and Scithers-edited anthologies ''The Conan Swordbook'' (1969). and ''The Conan Grimoire'' (1972).