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Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. In a masterful spoof on the mess in Africa, chiefly at the expense of the retreating British Empire, the author proves himself a Tarzan of the japes...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...
...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 a masterful Tarzan of the japes...
...himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every scene-from strong, cynical gusts of Jean Anouilh, Marcel Ayme and Jean Giraudoux down to weak, cynical undertones of Elizabeth Taylor: "He's dead. Listen to me. I'm alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit's people are named with florid symbolism-Madame Rosepettle, Rosalie, Commodore Roseabove, Rosalinda the Fish-but without even the simplest clue to the possible significance of all the roses...