Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Leavis Carroll - Alice In Brexitland


Rating: 4/5

Review:
An amusing read



This is a brief, amusing read.  It's a very good parody of Alice in Wonderland (complete with some very clever illustrations which closely mirror the great Tenniel originals), which excoriates the Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum.

Alice in Brexitland is a very clever piece of work, because "Leavis Carroll" has the skill to stick closely to some of the original scenes and characters in Alice while neatly skewering some of the Brexit events and people.  The author is very obviously opposed to Brexit so it's not at all even-handed (although Jeremy Corbyn is mercilessly satirised) but it is clever enough and accurate enough to remain witty pretty well throughout.

I didn't find this laugh-out-loud funny, and the idea was beginning to pall a little by the end, but it's an entertaining read which I can recommend for a diverting hour or two.

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