Word: satiricism
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After a brief tour in the Burma police (like Orwell), Saki turns up in London at 29, doing political lampoons for the Westminster Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki...
In 1909 he settled down in England, with a small income, a conservative club (the Cocoa Tree), a cottage in Surrey (for Ethel) and growing celebrity as a writer of comic short stories. But nobody ever takes a comic writer seriously, and, Saki complained, "a humorist is almost invariably expected...
So successful was the adaptation that it elbowed Beaumarchais' prose off the stage. In brushing away the encrustations of age and restoring the original to us. Epstein and Leib have unearthed no new themes; they have instead uncovered a wealth of satiric ornamentation, the angry undergrowth of the author's...
Yet The Men's Club is not so much burlesque as carefully paced intellectual striptease. Male armor is dropped to exhibit emotional paralysis; egos wrapped in tough independence are peeled away to show a tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original...
Pavel Kohout's The Hangwoman details the effortlessness of killing in modern society. By setting his satiric novel in a school for executioners, Kohout presents a brutal and vivid image which he masks in the lightness of his writing. The school, the seven students, and the two directors become metaphors...