The Independent - London, May 16th, 2001
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 the air of a wickedly innocent Silenus, more than willing to admit his own faults and vices while keeping a sharp look-out for the fibs and evasions he expected of everyone else. His behaviour often reverted to japes, as though public-school bliss, whether in sport or bed or library, had entrapped his spirit for good. He liked, and was, a...
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