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...DUKE OF GALLODORO (232 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribners...
...Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...
...BACKWARD BRIDE (180 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribner...
Uncle Giorgio, Anisetta and Author Menen's fans have to go through a lot more before Aquila sees the light. After the professor comes a French existentialist count, after him a comic American from Ohio, and then a comic psychiatrist. Finally, to Uncle Giorgio's great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...