Comments on Bookride: Diary of a Nobody (1892)

I do have a fantastic penguin edition of "The Diar...

2010-05-21T23:56:18.949Z

I do have a fantastic penguin edition of "The Diary of a Nobody" with spectacular artwork on the from cover; which I am selling for just £10 plus £2.99 p.p. It was published in 1975.
Those who wish to puchase it should write to me at:
skymorningstar@hotmail.com

'He thought in translation it probably read like C...

2009-10-21T17:44:28.465Z

'He thought in translation it probably read like Chekhov, so perhaps they both ha unEnglish perspectives on it.'

That never occurred to me Thersites - and of course it's often pointed out that Americans and Brits tend to see the tragic rather than the comic in Chekhov.

I wonder if Lupin & his wife ended up in some outback Aussie town, gazing wistfully at the desert and remembering mum and dad while the dingos howl.

However Lupin ended up, I'm sure Charles and Carrie's boy has no resemblance to the Lupin Pooter who used to appear as 'Victorian Dad' in Viz!

Ach we'll start worrying when you paint your bath ...

2009-10-21T08:16:02.412Z

Ach we'll start worrying when you paint your bath red Nigel.

I couldn't make head nor tail of the Aristos, which I discovered at the same time as the Kingsley Amis poem on Verne's Captain Nemo - the poem became an immediate favourite but the Fowles book thankfully has faded from memory.

I strongly object to you designating blogs as 'Dia...

2009-10-21T02:19:04.845Z

I strongly object to you designating blogs as 'Diaries of Nobodies'. My own blog on literature and the arts in North London is read by several hundred people every day and has been noted in the 'Holloway Gazette' and by 'Grumpy Old Bookman.' You may be a nobody but I beg leave to exempt myself from this insult. I am yours most sincerely Charles Pugh - Terr

Does anyone know anything about Weedon Grossmith's...

2009-10-20T20:17:11.769Z

Does anyone know anything about Weedon Grossmith's novel, The Woman With a History? I've been looking for it for years.

I don't think "The big point that JW makes is that if you don't find it funny 'it almost certainly means that you're self-deluded and humourless enough to be considered Pooterish.'" is quite right. Two people I knew- one a raving Marxist, one a very distinguished translator- thought it tragic. According to George Orwell, the Diary had been popular in prerevolutionary Russia. He thought in translation it probably read like Chekhov, so perhaps they both ha unEnglish perspectives on it.