![]() Enormously enjoyable, a ready-made cult waiting to be discovered, a holiday bouquet asking to be picked, as invigorating in its irritations as in its satisfactions’ full of ingenuity, cunning codes and anagrams and bits of startling expertise. This is an achievement which can hardly be dismissed as mere entertainment’ĭ. Vulgar, but not common (to borrow Waugh’s phrase), it can accommodate a whore’s parlour as readily as a smart cavalry mess’Ī truly powerful vision of evil and corruption. ‘The Raven charivari is as scandalously compelling as Evelyn Waugh’s diaries. It is a strangely humble and endearing performance: less silly, less nasty and less affected than its up-market equivalent, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell’ ‘Nobody can complain of Simon Raven that he doesn’t try to give his readers their money’s worth. His whole sequence is marvellously witty, intelligent and entertaining’ Mr Raven seems to me to have a far clearer perception of what is going on in the world than either Lord Snow or Mr Powell. ‘Whereas Anthony Powell is indulgent to privilege and Lord Snow is indulgent to power, Mr Raven is savage to both. ![]() ![]() Indulgently bizarre sex scenes rub shoulders with sharply observed human dilemmas and relentlessly exposed psychological and political manipulation’ ‘Simon Raven has always had a distinctive tone -confident, worldly-wise, insolently comic. ![]()
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