Etienne Leroux (1922–1989)
Autore di To a Dubious Salvation (Modern Classics)
Serie
Opere di Etienne Leroux
Isis isis isis 1 copia
Die eerste lewe van Colet 1 copia
Na'va 1 copia
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Opere correlate
Windroos: Verhale deur 10 Sestigers — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Leroux, Etienne
- Nome legale
- Le Roux, Stephanus Petrus Daniël
- Data di nascita
- 1922-06-13
- Data di morte
- 1989-12-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Family church yard of Wamakersdrift, South Africa
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Zuid-Afrika
- Istruzione
- Stellenbosch University
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Recensioni
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 143
- Popolarità
- #144,062
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 36
- Lingue
- 4
It's an excellent satire, full of sharp, angry sarcasm, and some very funny half-page portraits of people: a narcissistic Greek author; a prudish traffic policeman; two Lords, Sudden and Seldom; a poor Boer man -- and about twenty others, very well drawn. Leroux doesn't waste a single line: he's savage and accurate -- a wonderfully good writer. This is satire as it should be written, by someone nearly apoplectic with hatred and impatience, and yet also infused by an irrepressible desire to laugh at everyone. It was banned in South Africa, as documented in the book "the Muzzled Muse: Literature and Censorship in South Africa."
Beyond satire, and piercing description, it isn't much, but I will be reading other books by Leroux.… (altro)