Aftermath: (2) Cultural References: (2. 2) Film and Writings: Chaucer makes reference to Herostratus in The House of Fame: "I am that ylke shrewe, ywis,/That brende the temple of Ysidis / In Athenes, loo, that citee". / "And wherfor didest thou so?" quod she. / "By my thrift," quod he, "madame, / I wolde fayn han had a fame,/As other folk hadde in the toun". . . Many authors from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain refer to Herostratus to represent someone who will do anything to gain notoriety. He is discussed in Chapter 8 of the second part of Cervantes' Don Quixote (1615), along with Julius Caesar and Hernán Cortés among others. Don García, the protagonist of Ruiz de Alarcón's La verdad sospechosa (Suspect Truth) compares his feats to the ancient character. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a short story entitled "Erostratus" as part of his 1939 Le mur (The Wall). In the story, a man plans to commit a crime of random violence as a means to achieving fame. Herostratus is a 1967 British film by Australian film-maker Don Levy about a man who plans a spectacular public suicide. A 1972 tragic comedy Forget Herostratus! by Grigori Gorin depicts a fictitious plot of the events in Ephesus. Herostratus is referenced in Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet science fiction film Stalker". Herostratus" is a 2001 Armenian film co-written (with Armen Vatyan) and directed by Rouben Kochar. It follows closely the facts of its eponym's life". Herostratus" is mentioned in the book 'The Prague Cemetery' by Umberto Eco