by Saki · Quaderns Crema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477270652
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«Bassington, un noi insuportable» is Saki's satirical novel, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (160 pages, in Catalan).
Francesa Bassington, a widow and mother of Comus, must leave her London house when the owner's niece marries. To keep it, she tries to marry her son to the niece or to an heiress, or find him a good job; all fails due to the son's unbearable character and the mother-son antagonism. Saki satirizes Victorian London morality.
The work, originally published in 1912 as The Unbearable Bassington, is number 25 in the Biblioteca Mínima collection, with a Catalan translation by Montserrat Lunati.
For readers of social satire and classic British fiction.
Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
