Valmouth and Other Novels - Ronald Firbank
KORTE INHOUD
Valmouth is the novel Aubrey Beardsley would have written, if he had written novels. Elegant, absurd, often obscene, Valmouth (1919) is as much a style as a story. And the style is unlike anything the world would see again for some 50 years. A litany of the principal characters may give you a notion of Firbank's approach to literature: the centenarian Eulalia Hurstpierpoint, devoted to faith, flagellation, and spiked garters; Mrs Elizabeth/Lizzie/Betty Thoroughfare, Eulalia's pompous companion; ffines, the butler; Thetis Tooke, a sweet young thing hoping to catch Mrs Thoroughfare's son, Dick; Madam Yajñavalkya, an Indian masseuse, mystic, and confidante; and Lady Parvula de Panzoust, who in spite of her age has kept her lovelight blazing. The novella is abundant, overbrimming with flowers, and characters, and bons mots, and all manner of artistic, religious, and sartorial allusions. What plot there is, is all but obscured by the luxuriant overgrowth of Firbank's bizarre, arabesque prose
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