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Indlæser... The Best of Antrobus: Tales of Diplomatic Misadventure (1974)af Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Durrell
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I have read many of these stories before, in Stiff Upper Lip and Esprit de Corp (I didn't know till now there was a third book in that series, nor about this book of selections from all three). I remember greatly enjoying Stiff Upper Lip. And yet, this book struck me as really boring and repetitive, and full of quite crude humor (mostly about drinking and the results of drinking). I don't know if I've changed, or something about this selection of stories just didn't work for me. Aside from the crude humor - the same characters show up again and again, and the timeline(s) just don't work. Dovebasket pulls off too many pranks, and is disposed of repeatedly; the ambassador similarly gets into multiple situations, apparently in the same post - or one indistinguishable from the others, and having pretty much the same staff. I usually enjoy diplomatic stories, even ones designed to be "funny", but here...didn't work for me. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The finest of Lawrence Durrell's classic short stories of diplomatic mischief Dark is the day when culture comes to Sczbog. The capital of Vulgaria, nestled snugly behind the Iron Curtain, has long been devoid of higher thought, and that is the way the men in the British embassy like it. But when the French embassy gives a lecture on literature, it ignites a chain reaction of unwanted cultural exchange, subjecting the King's men to endless nights of Dutch poetry, Japanese theater, and Swiss yodeling. Extricating themselves from this high-minded mess will take a miracle of a most unpolitic kind. This is a typical incident in the long and colorful career of Antrobus, diplomat in his Majesty's service. In these pages, he confronts waltzing ambassadors, half-mad press secretaries, and a gruesome Kurdish circumcision. Through it all, he and his men stay calm, knowing that the surest way to cause a diplomatic incident is to make the mistake of attempting diplomacy. No library descriptions found. |
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