Sensation. In I.

In the novel “Sensation” (1938), the famous British prose writer, Ivlin V, perhaps, like in any other book, demonstrates a truly Jeromic ability to create funny literally from nothing, growing a whole absurd “Tragicomedy of mistakes” from one shutter confusion. The modest author of the Lug and Thicket column in a provincial newspaper as a result of an editorial confusion is sent instead of his namesake - a famous writer and traveler - a military correspondent to the distant African country of Esmaili, where, according to rumors, a civil war is brewing. Upon arrival there, he finds out that there is no war in the country. But the sensation is expected from Mr. Tappock, and a quiet nonsense, finding himself in the former colony crazy and dangerous for life, tries to complete the editorial task - and at the same time survive...