The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jean Dutourd's 1963 novel, The Horrors of Love.
The University of Chicago Press have one Dutourd title in print -- A Dog's Head -- but otherwise the author has fallen far out of favor. Regularly translated into English until the mid-1970s -- and regularly reviewed in publications such as Time -- he was one of a whole bunch of French authors that the US/UK lost touch with about forty years ago (and since he lived until 2011, and kept publishing until near the time of his death at ninety-one, that's a whole lot of his work that US/UK audiences have missed).
This is one of his wilder (and bigger -- over two hundred thousand words) efforts, but it holds up well fifty years on. Of course, I do have a particular soft spot for fiction-in-dialogue.
The University of Chicago Press have one Dutourd title in print -- A Dog's Head -- but otherwise the author has fallen far out of favor. Regularly translated into English until the mid-1970s -- and regularly reviewed in publications such as Time -- he was one of a whole bunch of French authors that the US/UK lost touch with about forty years ago (and since he lived until 2011, and kept publishing until near the time of his death at ninety-one, that's a whole lot of his work that US/UK audiences have missed).
This is one of his wilder (and bigger -- over two hundred thousand words) efforts, but it holds up well fifty years on. Of course, I do have a particular soft spot for fiction-in-dialogue.