The Diary of A Nobody - in Culture

In Culture

  • The book has spawned the word "Pooterish" to describe a tendency to take oneself excessively seriously.
  • Lupin Pooter is mentioned in John Betjeman's poem "Middlesex".
  • The book is mentioned in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.

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