![]() And John Sturrock in the New Statesman, 'Allais stands, along with Jarry, at the head of the most dazzling and highly educated tradition of French humour, as witty as it is whimsical'. 'On first publication, in 1976, Clive James in the Observer said 'Allais has been dead 70 years but his mocking tone ensures him a permanently relevant after-life'. His humour kept all Paris, high and low, waiting breathlessly for the paper which would carry his next tale. ![]() From an ordinary phenomenon, simple sentiment or situation, he would logically deduce the looniest, most macabre and most unexpected result. In the words of Lisa Appignanesi, 'Allais was a consummate absurdist. has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns'.Alphonse Allais has been described as the greatest humorous writer ever. ![]() Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. ![]()
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