Wilson, Angus - Such Darling Dodos
Such Darling Dodos
After this fairly detailed treatment of The Wrong Set, it is not necessary to spend quite so much time on Wilson's second collection. The feelings, recollections, and social ambience out of which both volumes spring are to a large extent the same, though the stories in Such Darling Dodos sometimes have a certain emotional thinness (as in "Sister Superior") and an element of exaggeration and contrivance (as in "A Little Companion") that suggest an imagination working at reduced pressure while the conscious mind makes a story out of an interesting idea.
"Rex Imperator," which derives its claustrophobic emotional atmosphere from the many vacations Wilson spent in the 1930s at his elder brother's house at Seaford, is a fictional version of that brother's relationship to the rest of the Wilson family: martyred by his relatives' parasitic dependence on him, Rex Palmer is also their "King Emperor" by virtue of having money for...
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