Synopsis
In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turned his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siecle world of the 1890s--the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous sketches, Beerbohm captures the likes of Enoch Soames, only begetter of the neglected poetic masterwork Fungoids, Maltby and Braxton, two fashionable novelists caught in a bitter rivalry, and Savonarola Brown, author a truly incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. One of the masterpieces of modern humorous writing, Seven Men is also a shrewdly perceptive but also heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character of a bygone age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was born in London and studied at Oxford. He published his first collection of essays, entitled The Works of Max Beerbohm, in 1896 and soon established a reputation as a brilliant caricaturist and critic. He was married to the American actress Florence Kahn and lived in Rapallo, Italy, for most of his life.
Booknews
Reprint of the incomparable Max's classic parody of the end of the 19th-century world. New introduction by John Updike. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)