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 Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927-2001), was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist, raconteur and bon vivant who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and...
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 The Independent - London Obituary: Simon Raven
05/16/2001: 1,942 words, approx. 7 pages LIBERTINE, WANDERER, scholar, rogue, debtor - none of these labels ever quite stuck to the writer Simon Raven, though he took full advantage of the seedy kudos they brought him. With his slanted eyes, devilish eyebrows and in later years rugose cheeks, he had... summary from source:
New Criterion Who was Simon Raven?(Critical Essay)
04/01/2003: 4,954 words, approx. 17 pages Novelists who achieve a cult status write, by definition, for a narrow and usually specialist readership, and while their books are not for everyone, they attract certain passionate partisans. One cult figure, the English novelist, journalist, and television writer Simon Raven (1927-2001), did...
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 Critical Essay by Kerry Mcsweeney
2,836 words, approx. 10 pages
The very bulk of Raven's writing might suggest what a reading of his novels confirms: they are uneven in quality, occasionally repetitious and forced, and sometimes no more than entertaining. Only a few of them exhibit all of Raven's appreciable gifts as a novelist working together in harmony. These flaws should not, however, be allowed to obscure the fact that Raven is a serious and interesting novelist, whose works have yet to receive, at least in North America, the attention they deserve. (... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Barber
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For all his worldly pagan sermonising, Simon Raven is as obsessed by sin and retribution as a hell-fire divine. This has been apparent from the very beginning of his Alms for Oblivion sequence, in the first volume of which the coarsegrained Jude Holbrook … is cruelly punished for his shystering by the death of his beloved young son. Since then all the protagonists, as well as a few more secondary players like Holbrook, have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. And while most of them have ri... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Julian Symons
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The Survivors is the tenth and last volume in Simon Raven's 'Alms For Oblivion' sequence, and the death of culture is somehow mixed up in it with the extinction of the English gentleman. 'Such gentlemen as survive, though honourable and decent men, can only be seen as futile anachronisms when once one properly appreciates the present conditions of society,' Mr Raven wrote 15 years ago. His view has hardened since then, and his gentlemen are no longer honourable and decent&...
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