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...irreverent writer in an irreverent age runs the risk of being an invisible man writing in invisible ink. Impish, antic Aubrey Menen has retained high visibility by spoofing the solemn and the sacred from pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches) to Hindu epics (The Ramayana). In Rome for Ourselves he takes on another highly worshipful subject-the Eternal City. Tonic in tone and eclectic in vision, Menen's superbly illustrated Rome is an amusingly literate exercise in debunkmanship, the art of using the past while appearing to abuse...
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. Installment No. 5 of The Music of Time, a seriocomedy of Britain between the two World Wars, which combines the antic savagery of Waugh with the social savvy of Proust...
...humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express the " 'Leave Us Alone' philosophy of young people" in largely humorous terms...
Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. With torrents of prose, marvelously antic characters and more than enough plot, the author follows the capricious hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) on a calamitous expedition to Ireland...
Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. With torrents of prose, antic characters and more than enough plot, the author follows the hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) on a calamitous expedition to Ireland...