Word: pseudonym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This gives Author Ian Brook (a pseudonym) plenty of opportunity to rib the retreating Empire right up to No. 10 Downing Street, and to fire deft, satiric shots at everybody from an American anthropologist studying illiteracy among Alabasa's albinos to the new class of boorish, lawyer-bred African politicians ("The Prime Minister of the Colony laughed and picked at the hard skin on the ball of his foot"). Except for a dramatically faulty attempt to give Jimmy a realistic love affair, out of keeping with the otherwise admirably sustained, two-dimensional tone of spoof, Jimmy Riddle emerges...
...voice teacher named Vandeleur Lee. While Lee posed as the magazine's critic, young Bernard wrote the notices. After a year on The Hornet, Shaw retired from criticism for seven years. Soon after his return, he wrote for London's The Star under his famous pseudonym Corno di Bassetto, and later for The World simply as "G.B.S...
...signs of stagnancy are noticeable in the two up-and-rising Londoners who collaborated under the pseudonym Mark Caine. Tom Maschler, 27, who thought up the S-Man, is editor in chief of the venerable publishing firm of Jonathan Cape. Frederic Raphael, who wrote most of the book, is a film and TV scriptwriter and author of a successful novel, The Limits of Love, due for April publication...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...
...novel, really a philosophical fable, is an unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...