num_pages: 316
description: Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities he consults with seven sages each of whom specializes in a different aspect of Living. Each teacher delivers himself of a great Generality each great Generality launches a new great Adventure from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare Joyce and Kipling gloriously impure.
language: English
title: All About H. Hatterr
publisher: New York Review Books Classics