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Author Description Alan Burns published eight novels, two essay collections, a play, and a short story collection. Major works include <i>Europe After the Rain</i>, <i>Celebrations</i>, <i>Babel</i>, and <i>Dreamerika! A Surrealist Fantasy</i>. From the 1960s on, he was associated with the loosely-constituted circle of experimental British writers influenced by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/191776.Rayner_Heppenstall" title="Rayner Heppenstall" rel="nofollow noopener">Rayner Heppenstall</a> that included <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/80964.Stefan_Themerson" title="Stefan Themerson" rel="nofollow noopener">Stefan Themerson</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/71979.Eva_Figes" title="Eva Figes" rel="nofollow noopener">Eva Figes</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54420.Ann_Quin" title="Ann Quin" rel="nofollow noopener">Ann Quin</a> and its informal leader, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52280.B__S__Johnson" title="B. S. Johnson" rel="nofollow noopener">B. S. Johnson</a>.<br /><br />In 1982 he co-edited (with Charles Sugnet) <i>The Imagination on Trial: British and American Writers Discuss Their Working Methods</i>, which the Washington Post "Book World" called "diverting, iconoclastic, and compulsively readable". The book included interviews with 11 authors (as well as Burns himself): J. G. Ballard, Eva Figes, John Gardner, Wilson Harris, John Hawkes, B. S. Johnson, Tom Mallin, Michael Moorcock, Grace Paley, Ishmael Reed, and Alan Sillitoe.<br /><br />Angus Wilson called Burns "one of the two or three most interesting new novelists working in England."

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