Jurgen : A Comedy of Justice (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from wirkman

The most famous comedy of Cabell's career, it became so because of a famous censorship trial, in which the book was exonerated of all charges of indecency. Indeed, though it is obvious that Cabell was making some elaborate double-entendres, they were of such a nature that youngsters and the monom...

from wirkman

This, the most famous novel by James Branch Cabell, is not his best. Nor is it his worst. But it is his most famous. It became a cause celebre, and thus achieved a kind of immortality that his best books ("The Cream of the Jest," "The Silver Stallion," "The Music from Behind the Moon," "The High ...

from jsburbidge

Cabell is the fantasy writer of the road not taken: urbane, sophisticated, civilized -- which also means dependent on a web of allusions and on the reader's grounding in his predecessors. Jurgen is the best-known of his novels and one of his best. It does not require (but is enriched by) prior kn...

from schteve

Outrageously funny and ribald satire as the rakish Jurgen lies and seduces his way through Heaven, Hell and all points between. The chapter 'Divers Imbroglios Of King Smoit' is worth reading again and again as is the obscenity trial Jurgen faces before a dung beetle prosecutor (a chapter added by...

from selfnoise

One of many beautiful, satirical, bawdy, and gently ironic fantasies. Cabell was a notable literary figure at one point, but his mannered language seems to have fallen out of style.