Famous Last Words (novel)

Famous Last Words is a 1981 novel by Canadian author Timothy Findley, in which Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (originally from the Ezra Pound poem of the same name) is the main character.

In the book Findley poses a few ideas involving the flight of Rudolf Hess into Scotland.

References

"Books Of The Times". The New York Times. 1982-06-22. Retrieved 2008-04-05.

v t e Works by Timothy Findley
Novels	The Last of the Crazy People (1967) The Butterfly Plague (1969) The Wars (1977) Famous Last Words (1981) Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) The Telling of Lies (1986) Headhunter (1993) The Piano Man's Daughter (1995) You Went Away (1996) Pilgrim (1999) Spadework (2001)
Short fiction collections	Dinner Along the Amazon (1984) Stones (1988) Dust to Dust (1997)
Drama	The Paper People (1967) Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969) The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972) The Newcomers (1977) Can You See Me Yet? (1977) Catsplay (1978) The Wars (1983) The Stillborn Lover (1993) The Trials of Ezra Pound (2000) Elizabeth Rex (2001) Shadows (2001)
Documentary films	The National Dream (1974) Dieppe 1942 (1979)
Non-fiction	Inside Memory (1990) From Stone Orchard (1998) Journeyman: Travels of a Writer (2003)

v t e Ezra Pound
Poetry	A Lume Spento (July 1908) A Quinzaine for this Yule (December 1908) "Ballad of the Goodly Fere" (1909) Ripostes (1912) "In a Station of the Metro" (1913) Cathay (1915) "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) The Cantos (1917–1968) Cultural references in The Cantos
Other works	The Spirit of Romance (1910) Des Imagistes (1914) ABC of Reading (1934) Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935) Guide to Kulchur (1938) Radio broadcasts, 1941–1945 If This Be Treason (1948)
Concepts	Ideogrammic method Imagism Parable of the Sunfish Periplum Three Kinds of Poetry Vorticism
Family	William Wadsworth (maternal ancestor) Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather) Dorothy Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) Olivia Shakespear (mother-in-law) Olga Rudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz (daughter) Boris de Rachewiltz (son-in-law)
Literary circle	Richard Aldington E. E. Cummings H.D. T. S. Eliot Ford Madox Ford Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Ernest Hemingway T. E. Hulme James Joyce James Laughlin New Directions Wyndham Lewis Archibald MacLeish Charles Elkin Mathews William Brooke Smith Allen Tate William Carlos Williams W. B. Yeats
Works about	Discretions The Pound Era Reading Pound Reading "Visits to St. Elizabeths" A ZBC of Ezra Pound
Miscellaneous	Blast Brunnenburg CasaPound Julien Cornell Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound Hugh Kenner Ezra Pound (Lewis) Famous Last Words Modernism St. Elizabeths Hospital Vienna Café

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