Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memorandum was written in 1965 by Vaclav Havel, 33, one of Czechoslovakia's leading playwrights. As a satirist, Havel is fortunate to have the doctrinaire rigidities of a Communist society as a mockable target. Memorandum, first produced at Prague's Balustrade Theater, is a witty evisceration of the absurdities of party-line orthodoxy and bureaucratic musical chairs. But no audience need live in a Commu nist country to feel the tickle of Havel's barbs-it is enough to have experienced alienation in the midst of a scientific, computerized society. His main target is the mechanization...
...bourgeois undergraduates who appear to be trying on Red to see if it flatters their complexions. In the end, nothing about La Chinoise can be taken seriously-neither the mock-revolutionaries, who cannot commit a terrorist act without knocking off the wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe and Dostoevsky, La Chinoise is only, like its subject, scan-deep: dazzling on the surface and virtually vacuous beneath...
...mouth wit has the fine rollicking belligerence that keeps everyone within eavesdropping distance of the drunk at the end of the bar. But sure, Honor is a bit of a fraud. The fist she brandishes so threateningly is really papier-mache. Her secret problem is that she is a satirist who faints at the sight of blood. Her seventh novel has all the brilliance of an expertly pulled punch...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absurdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...