Major Thompson Goes French: The New Notebooks Of Major W. Marmaduke Thompson
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What happens when a quintessentially British major attempts to decode the baffling mysteries of French life? In Major Thompson Goes French, Pierre Daninos returns to his beloved creation, the irrepressibly stiff-upper-lipped Major W. Marmaduke Thompson, whose new notebooks chronicle his ongoing, bewildered immersion into the paradoxes of French culture — from the rituals of the dining table to the labyrinthine logic of Gallic bureaucracy. With a razor-sharp wit and an anthropologist's eye, Daninos presents a comedic collision of national identities that is as incisive as it is hilarious, translated here with elegant precision by Moura Budberg. A worthy successor to the wildly popular The Notebooks of Major Thompson, this sequel illustrates Daninos's remarkable gift for satirising cultural stereotypes without ever descending into mean-spiritedness, instead revealing a deep, affectionate curiosity about what makes nations tick. The Major's dispatches serve as a delightful mirror held up to both the French and the British, exposing the absurdities each nation takes for granted as perfectly civilised. For anyone who has ever navigated the comic minefield of cross-cultural misunderstanding, the Major's adventures will resonate with a laughter that lingers long after the final page.
Author: Pierre Daninos
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, W. H. Allen
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What happens when a quintessentially British major attempts to decode the baffling mysteries of French life? In Major Thompson Goes French, Pierre Daninos returns to his beloved creation, the irrepressibly stiff-upper-lipped Major W. Marmaduke Thompson, whose new notebooks chronicle his ongoing, bewildered immersion into the paradoxes of French culture — from the rituals of the dining table to the labyrinthine logic of Gallic bureaucracy. With a razor-sharp wit and an anthropologist's eye, Daninos presents a comedic collision of national identities that is as incisive as it is hilarious, translated here with elegant precision by Moura Budberg. A worthy successor to the wildly popular The Notebooks of Major Thompson, this sequel illustrates Daninos's remarkable gift for satirising cultural stereotypes without ever descending into mean-spiritedness, instead revealing a deep, affectionate curiosity about what makes nations tick. The Major's dispatches serve as a delightful mirror held up to both the French and the British, exposing the absurdities each nation takes for granted as perfectly civilised. For anyone who has ever navigated the comic minefield of cross-cultural misunderstanding, the Major's adventures will resonate with a laughter that lingers long after the final page.