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Chargement... Potterism (1920)par Rose Macaulay
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An odd little novel, reading rather like an early work by a young writer, but actually coming from the middle of Macaulay's writing career. It doesn't quite seem to be able to make its mind up whether it's intended to be a serious satire or a light comedy - I suppose that particular doubt is already signalled in the subtitle. It also manages casually to throw in an awful lot of rather crude antisemitic comments. Even by the standards of the time I think Macaulay was overdoing it a bit for a book that has a supposedly sympathetic Jewish central character. The story centres around a group of clever young people who launch a campaign against the mediocrity and commercialism of British intellectual life, a quality they dub "Potterism," taking the name from a prominent press baron and his wife, a popular novelist. Naturally, two of the leading anti-Potterites are the Potters' children. When they have to face the challenges of normal adult life in the aftermath of the Great War, they find that Potterism is more difficult to resist than they expected. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together. Johnny came up from Rugby and Jane from Roedean. Johnny was at Balliol and Jane at Somerville. Both, having ambitions for literary careers, took the Honours School of English Language and Literature. They were ordinary enough young people; clever without being brilliant, nice-looking without being handsome, active without being athletic, keen without being earnest, popular without being leaders, open-handed without being generous, as revolutionary, as selfish, and as intellectually snobbish as was proper to their years, and inclined to be jealous one of the other, but linked together by common tastes and by a deep and bitter distaste for their father's newspapers, which were many, and for their mother's novels, which were more. These were, indeed, not fit for perusal at Somerville and Balliol. The danger had been that Somerville and Balliol, till they knew you well, should not know you knew it. In their first year, the mother of Johnny and Jane ('Leila Yorke, ' with 'Mrs. Potter' in brackets after it), had, after spending Eights Week at Oxford, announced her intention of writing an Oxford novel. It made life at Oxford the worst sort of problem you can imagine. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While not in the same class as The Towers of Trebizond, Potterism is well worth a read. It's available as a free ebook from Project Gutenberg. ( )