'Fielding, a professor of literature (is it a roman a clef? one asks oneself), sets out to write pornography to pay his dangerous debts. [...] The title, 'Seven Books for Grossman', is descriptive. Grossman is a publisher; Fielding holes up in a hotel and writes seven filthy works for him. With a little help from modern classics: 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'As I Lay Dying', 'Slaughterhouse Five', et cetera. In other words, his pornography is parody.'
Source:
Halligan, Marion. 'Games with Punning, Parody and Porn', Canberra Times, 31 March 1984, p.26.
