Looking for Edgar Wallace: the Author as Consumer
1994; Oxford University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/hwj/37.1.143
ISSN1477-4569
Autores Tópico(s)Short Stories in Global Literature
ResumoThe state of my health condemns me to reading novels. I picked up a book by Edgar Wallace for the first time. So far as I know he is one of the most popular authors in America and England. It is hard to imagine anything more mediocre, contemptible, and crude. Not a shade ofperception, talent or imagination. The adventures are piled on without any art at all, like police records laid one on top of another. Not for a single moment did Ifeel any excitement, interest, or even simple curiosity. While reading the book you have a feeling as if out of boredom, for lack of anything better to do, you were drumming yourfingers on a fly-specked windowpane . By this book alone you can judge to what degree enlightened England (and of course not England alone) remains a country of cultivated savages. It is the millions of Englishmen and Englishwomen who avidly and excitedly to the point of fainting spells gaped at the processions and solemnities of the jubilee of the royal couple, who are voracious readers of Wallace's products. Leon Trotsky, 19351
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