The Feast of Fools

by John David Morley

Book Overview

Evoking the burlesque comedies and the heartache of a modern city caught in the frenzy of a winter carnival season, The Feast of Fools is exuberant, erotic and shimmering. Morely's tantalizing cast of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312117868
• ISBN13: 9780312117863
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Difficult reading, but a loads of fun.

The only other review on this book gave a rather harsh evaluation of this novel. I must admit that the book was pretty trying and slow-going at first (mainly due to the author's rollicking wordiness which is sometimes nonsensical, and a lot of obscure descriptive passages) but it picks up momentum and interest after a while. It's those kinds of books that slowly grows on you, and that keeps you persistently reading despite its idiosyncracies at times. I find this book hugely entertaining, and its plot and characters immensely funny. The author has a wonderful knack of stylistic timing, puncturing otherwise difficult and dense passages with a dose of high-voltage humor! I think serious literary students and teachers would find this book challenging - Bakthin's carnival theories would fit in snugly with this book. But an average reader would too, after of course, the initial 100 or so pages of establishing and deciphering the codes to reading and understanding this book. It's not a book one often chance upon, but its a book once read, would be forever savoured.