Date: 14 Jun 88 20:59:56 GMT
From: hoey@ai.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
To: SF-LOVERS
Subject: Re: Jurgen (was Job -- love or hate)

cjk@celerity.UUCP (chris kevlahan ) writes:
>When I read Job, I couldn't help being constantly reminded of [James
>Branch Cabell].

Job lifted several elements from Cabell's Jurgen.  I have heard it claimed
that Job was a fairly direct adaptation of Jurgen, but I don't see a full
parallel.

>J.B.C.'s books also contain the earliest reference that I can find to the
>ultra-supreme-being "Kochei the deathless"....

That's ``Koschei'', and He is an invention of Cabell's.  It is easy to
believe otherwise unless you realize that all the citations in Cabell's
novels are to fictitious works invented by Cabell.

Dan