With Engelbrecht, the dwarf surrealist boxer, Maurice Richardson has demonstrated precisely how to write a good nonsense book. There are two aspects of 'The Exploits of Engelbrecht' that make it a timeless classic. First of all, and most crucially, Richardson takes his subject matter seriously/5(18). Richardson, Maurice. Home. No Naked Ads - Here! The exploits of engelbre.., p The Exploits of Engelbrecht, page 5 Select Voice: Brian (uk) Emma (uk) The Exploits of Engelbrecht. The Exploits of Engelbrecht. Try our free service - convert any of your 4/5(32). “The Exploits of Engelbrecht is English surrealism at its greatest. Witty and fantastical, Maurice Richardson was light years ahead of his time. Unmissable.” - J.G. Ballard. Maurice Richardson's cult classic is one of the strangest works of fiction ever written. Fifteen stories that relate the activities of the Surrealist Sportsman's Club.
Exploits of Engelbrecht Ebook "To my mind one of the best examples of imaginative fiction to appear in England since the war is Maurice Richardson's The Exploits of Engelbrecht These 'Chronicles of the Surrealist Sportman's Club' are superbly laconic pieces, concentrating more original invention into fewer words than almost any writer I can. London, John Conquest, First Edition. First Impression. Richardson has placed his tongue firmly in hischeek, true, but then he has proceeded to bite it off with molarssharpened on the grindstones of profundity "The Exploits of Engelbrecht is English surrealism atits greatest. Witty and fantastical, Maurice Richardson was lightyears ahead of his time. Unmissable." - J.G. Ballard.
The series was collected in book form as The Exploits of Engelbrecht in ; it was later reprinted in and in a deluxe edition by Savoy Books in David Langford has praised The Exploits of Engelbrecht for their "enjoyable absurdist humour"; J. G. Ballard also admired the stories, describing them as "English surrealism at its greatest. Witty and fantastical, Maurice Richardson was light years ahead of his time. With Engelbrecht, the dwarf surrealist boxer, Maurice Richardson has demonstrated precisely how to write a good nonsense book. There are two aspects of 'The Exploits of Engelbrecht' that make it a timeless classic. First of all, and most crucially, Richardson takes his subject matter seriously. Engelbrecht is a dwarf surrealist boxer. Surrealist boxers, as a rule, only fight clocks, and, in one of his exploits, Engelbrecht does indeed enter the ring with a grandfather clock. But his exploits are not limited to boxing. Engelbrecht is a member in good standing with the Surrealist Sportsman Club.
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