SIGHTING:
GOOD BOOKS, BAD BREATHERS: TEN ASTHMATICS IN LITERATURE
- The kitchen maid in Swann’s Way
- Sleary, circus owner, in Hard Times
- Molloy in Molloy
- Dr. Rieux’s elderly
asthma patient (goes without saying) in The
Plague
- The shark in Pinocchio
- The garlicky procuress in Lolita
- Pums in Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Tristram Shandy (following
skating incident) in The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Mr. Omer, draper, tailor,
haberdasher, funeral furnisher, etc. in David
Copperfield
- Lillian Antolini in The Catcher in the Rye
--James Hillhouse (The Believer, May 2007, pg. 68)