Complex sentence: Lazlo Woodbine is a fictional character in some of Robert Rankin's novels-generally portrayed as a metafictional character, being in the novels themselves the creation of mystery writer P.P. Penrose-described by himself as the last of the nineteen-fifties private detectives.
Split into simpler sentences: Lazlo Woodbine is a fictional character in some of Robert Rankin's novels. He is generally portrayed as a metafictional character, being in the novels themselves the creation of mystery writer P.P. Penrose and described by himself as the last of the nineteen-fifties private detectives.