Présentation de l'éditeur
Yes, Pve read it and when I had finished the miserable thing ray head felt as though full of wind and dishwater. A critic is compelled to read every book of which a foolish public makes a fad, and in this era of decadent literature and depraved taste, the task is usually equivalent to wading through a miasmic sewer or hoofing it over an unprofitable Sahara. If a book is only bad enough it is sure of popular success. And Quo Vadis is the worst of all the irremediable tommyrot over which an undiscriminating public has raved. It does not even possess the doubtful charm of artistic immorality it sinks even below the usual level of insufferable imbecility. Where it is not morally corrupt and bestially bad, it is either puerile or blasphemous. Quo Vadis is the mental moon-calf, a chaotic ollapodrida composed of the intellectual fag-ends of the universe. To the normal mind it is neither entertaining nor instructive. It is a conglomeration of meaningless words, a concatenation of absurdities, a cataclysm of nescience and nonsense. It should have been subjected to the blue-pencil of the snake-editor then burned. The story, which occupies more than 500 dreary pages, could have been better told in a dozen newspaper columns. It is a lingering agony long drawn out. It is just such a book as I would expect a Texas editor to write while enjoying an attack of delirium-tremens. Reading hwere like seining the Atlantic ocean to find a bull-frog, or fishing in one of Talmage sidiotic sermons for a nascent idea.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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