My Uncle Oswald | Techniques
The novel is a long sexual joke with a surprise punch line. It features witty word play, such as referring to writers as having thin pencils, and frequent sexual encounters. The account of Yasmin's many seductions of the brilliant and famous becomes tedious, which Dahl seems to recognize when he stops the accounts and simply summarizes much of what Yasmin does before visiting the King of Norway in her last, nearly disastrous attempt at seduction.
The novel is supposedly taken from Oswald's diaries, and thus it is told primarily in the first person by Oswald himself. Oswald does...
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