Gary, Romain - Auberon Waugh
AUBERON WAUGH
[White Dog] is so boring and so disgusting that I would not review it at all if it did not demonstrate one reaction to the foreigners' predicament most vividly. Briefly, the foreigners' predicament is that they have no money and nobody is interested in what they think. Gary reckons to make a fortune by insulting the Americans, and I dare say he will succeed. Many of the things he says about black racists, professional Negroes and white liberals are perfectly valid, even if a trifle obvious. It is his repulsive way of saying it—spattering his narrative with he-man obscenities and unnecessary references to pus—which reveals the full depth of his intellectual dishonesty. Instead of telling intelligent, enlightened people what he feels wrong about race relations, he stages a one-man anti-American demonstration, which is doubly unsuccessful because the demonstrator is covered with warts, pus etc.
Although written in the form of a novel,...
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