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The Visitor is an amusing and chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the twist in the tale. In The Visitor, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Here, Uncle Oswald gets more than he bargained for in Arabia . . . The Visitor is taken from the short story collection Switch Bitch, which includes three other black comedies which capture the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex (including another Uncle Oswald story, Bitch). 'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation.' (The Times ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Richard E. Grant and Derek Jacobi. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Having got that out of the way, this is a tale in 2 parts. The first is read by someone who sounds like a county solicitor or bank manager, staid family, respectable job, little to no excitement in his life. He comes into the receipt of the diary of mysterious Uncle Oswald, the aforesaid serial seducer. Reading the diaries he thinks they are amusingly written and tries to find extracts that could be publishable, what follows is presented as one of those extracts.
Oswald himself is probably on the OCD scale when it comes to cleanliness and dirt. The lengths of the description about a hair in his egg for breakfast is quite over the top., but sets the scene for his general behaviour. Oswald finds himself traveling across the desert when he stops at a petrol station and the attendant (with his habits and diseases duly described) find that the fan belt on the Lagonda is on its last legs. Oswald has no desire to stay in the attendant's house and is going to sleep in the car when a Rolls arrives and he finds himself invited back to a fantasy castle, occupied by a rich man. We meet his wife Y daughter, both beautiful, and Oswald plans to seduce either. What happens during his night of passion is best left to the imagination, as are his schemes to find out who he bedded. The final twist in the story felt, to me, a lot like getting his just desserts.
Writing - excellent, Oswald - what I would fervently hope to be an outmoded throwback. A compromise 2.5 stars. ( )