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Capital Tales
The survivors and victims inhabiting the pages of Capital Tales dash forever the romantic myth that our peerless captains of industry are guiding us through the mists of progress to a shining land of prosperity. Tough, uncompromising portraits of people discovering the illusions they live by, the stories culminate in a confrontation between the narrator and a nineteenth-century British philosopher—a meeting of minds which leaves no meaning of the word “capital” unexamined.
204 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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April 8, 2020
Brian Fawcett is best known for his book "Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow". Capital Tales was written a few years earlier.
I like Brian Fawcett; he's funny and the views he conveys about society in his stories are biting but never cynical.
I would say that there are two types of stories in this collection: 1) stories where crazy things happen to stupid or hapless people; and 2) stories that aren't about anything else but the act of writing. Is that what they call meta-literature or postmodernism? Whatever. I preferred the first type.
I like Brian Fawcett; he's funny and the views he conveys about society in his stories are biting but never cynical.
I would say that there are two types of stories in this collection: 1) stories where crazy things happen to stupid or hapless people; and 2) stories that aren't about anything else but the act of writing. Is that what they call meta-literature or postmodernism? Whatever. I preferred the first type.
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