"Lavengro"
MY first-hand knowledge of George Borrow’s works is slight, and so I was unprepared for the spate of rip-roaring, full-blooded drama into which I was plunged when I listened to "Lavengro" from 2YA the other Friday. The fight with the Flaming Tinman and its romantic aftermath, the unrelenting enmity of Herne, and the episode of the poisoned cake- these can compete in dramatic intensity with incidents from any serial now holding the air. And Borrow’s prose has a fine rotundity which makes it particularly suitable for reading aloud. Phrases such as "She gave me a look of the deepest malignity" appear unremarkable in print,- but can sound shuddersome over the air. The programme was, in short, an excellent
one. Not only was it in itself good entertainment, but it should succeed in what is presumably the purpase of these literary studies-to lure us back to the originals.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 10
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148"Lavengro" New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 10
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