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...Aymeé travels well. Although French custodians of palms and prizes rate him as a deuxieėme cru-a secondary growth-he has been highly praised in the U.S. as one of the best products of his country. The reason for the difference in taste probably is that Satirist Ayme's dry caricatures hit the American palate as typically Gallic. Such novels as The Barkeep of Blemont and The Miraculous Barber have been so successful here that his U.S. publishers have now dug out one that is 18 years old. It turns on a murder...
...most novelists, murder is a springboard for mystery, terror or tragedy. For Marcel Aymeé, it is an occasion for comedy. Satirist Aymeé is less interested in the gruesome murder that is the source of The Secret Stream than in the characters of the French provincials who live along its banks. The novel is full of double exposures-images of provincial types as they appear to be and, superimposed, images of them as they presumably...
George Meredith was hardly the man to translate his own exact misadventures into literal print, but he had enough of his own, at least, to stimulate imagination. One of them began when he married the daughter of Satirist Thomas Love Peacock and settled down to earn a living writing poetry...
Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...
Dead Man in the Silver Market, by Aubrey Menen. In an amusing, somewhat mannered autobiographical aside, the noted Irish-Indian satirist laughs at Eastern and Western chauvinism, the world and himself (TIME...