"The Wasteland" by Martin Rowson (Harper and Row, 1990)

"A cunningly contrived and irreverent parody inspired by T.S.Eliot and Raymond Chandler." It's a graphic novel, with a graphical section of notes, and a textual section which begins "Not only the title but the plan and much of the incidental symbolism of this book were suggested by Mr T.S.Eliot's poem The Waste Land (Faber). Indeed, so deeply am I indebted, Mr. Eliot's poem will elucidate the difficulties of the book much better than my notes can do." There's also a cast list - the Taxi Driver's Peter Ackroyd, the barmen are Craig Raine and Ernest Hemingway, etc. I noticed Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières" by the Thames. I liked it.

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