Victor Bertocchi
Auteur de The Devil's Dancer: A Satire of Nothing
Œuvres de Victor Bertocchi
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 10
- Popularité
- #908,816
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 1
A couple people have commented that they might have simply "not gotten it" but I think they are being unfair to themselves. There isn't really a lot to get. The satire, such as it is, is fairly straightforward and, frankly, didn't make me care. I didn't care about the characters, I didn't care about the social commentary, I simply didn't care. The writing was fine and I have no doubt that some will find the humor more appealing than I do, but it won't be because anyone did or did not "get it."
As the previous paragraph makes clear, a narrative work (novel, play, movie, even poetry) needs to get some kind of buy-in from a reader/viewer or it is just an exercise for the writer. Satire is no different from a thriller or a romance in that regard. If I don't care about a character I need to care about the satirical points being made. If neither the characters nor the satire are interesting or compelling then reading becomes a chore to simply keep turning pages. This book wasn't that bad, I found myself turning pages to get to the next chuckle. It was just that they were far and few between.
I would probably recommend this to someone who likes satire and does not mind that it is neither complex nor particularly a narrative. Like any work but perhaps even more in humorous satire tastes vary so I hesitate to be too negative.
Reviewed from a copy made available through Goodreads First Reads.… (plus d'informations)