Prancing Nigger
Well it isn't as badly written as Valmouth or Cardinal Pirelli, and there's not so much nasty sniggering. But it's...
Prancing Nigger (1925) is probably Firbank's most widely known book, and was particularly successful in America. Many people consider it the best of the novels, and even if one prefers Valmouth or Vainglory, one is bound to admit that Prancing Nigger is, technically, one of his finest achievements. One reason for its popularity, perhaps, is that it has (though Firbank would have winced at such a humourless suggestion) what might be interpreted as a 'serious' sociological...
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- Pages: 80 pages
- ISBN: 9780715610947 / 715610945
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If you can stomach it morally, the vernacular is enjoyable, and sometimes exhilarating ("Oh ki; it put me in de gigglements..."), and the narration (as with FLOWER) is much less obscure than most of Firbank.[Read in THE COMPLETE RONALD FIRBANK, Duckworth 1961] Well it isn't as badly written as Valmouth or Cardinal Pirelli, and there's not so much nasty sniggering. But it's a painfully thin piece of trivia, and the -dialect-? -accent?- language?- is difficult to take in 2013. I really fail to see why Firbank's work has survived at all. Sorrow in Sunlight [alternatively entitled 'Prancing Nigger'] (1925)Author: Ronald Firbank* A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700...The title is your first clue. This book is totally politically incorrect. Set in some unnamed very warm Colonial country, every one, European and native is described...
