"Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so
will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes' The Laughing Cry . . .
this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody
Allen has for the
philosophical kvetch." --San Francisco Examiner
"Satirical, tender, bawdy, savage, and fi lled with love and hope."
--The Washington Post
"Mr Lopes has both the experience to give his work its grounding in
reality and suffi cient distance to give his contempt its cutting
edge." --New York Times Book Review
"Beaumarchais . . . Diderot . . . what on earth, you may ask, has
the eighteenth century got to do with a political satire about
contemporary Africa? . . . Lopes' satirical style, with its mixture
of ribaldry and cruelty, does hark back to the forthright age of
Swift and Voltaire." --BBC World Service Book Talks
"Superb book . . . done in fluent translation." --Publishers'
Weekly
"Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes' The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the philosophical kvetch." --San Francisco Examiner "Satirical, tender, bawdy, savage, and fi lled with love and hope." --The Washington Post "Mr Lopes has both the experience to give his work its grounding in reality and suffi cient distance to give his contempt its cutting edge." --New York Times Book Review "Beaumarchais . . . Diderot . . . what on earth, you may ask, has the eighteenth century got to do with a political satire about contemporary Africa? . . . Lopes' satirical style, with its mixture of ribaldry and cruelty, does hark back to the forthright age of Swift and Voltaire." --BBC World Service Book Talks "Superb book . . . done in fluent translation." --Publishers' Weekly
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