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“since this first volume of his purported ‘memoirs’ was published recently in the US, all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than 10 out of 42 reviewers—one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University—have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously”

—review of the first FLASHMAN novel in TIME Magazine, 1969

3/3

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,901382,00.html

#Scottish #literature #Flashman

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“the books add up, by design or otherwise, to one of the most sustained and damning condemnations of imperialism in popular literature … It’s the books’ unlikely anti-imperial bona fides that make them surprisingly relevant today, not least because the same old adventures continue to take place on the same old battlefields.”

Matthew Calyfield on the continuing relevance of George MacDonald Fraser’s FLASHMAN novels

2/3

https://meanjin.com.au/latest/why-read-the-flashman-papers-today/

#Scottish #literature #Flashman

and damned expensive, too.

It had taken centuries to make, and if all the great artists of the Classical Age and the Renaissance had seen it, they’d have agreed that the fellows who designed it (for design, of course, was its secret and its glory) knew their business. Being a Philistine, I will add only: never talk to me about Art or Beauty or Good Taste or Style, because I’ve seen the bloody elephant." [3/3]
-G.M.Fraser "Flashman and the Dragon"

An example of Cataphasis, affirming what can't be said? Maybe not.

Every other page in the entire series is #NSFW #TW trigger-warning-central #CaveatEmptor and for some will read funny as all hell. #Flashman