by Saki · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264017154
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«L'insupportable Bassington» is the novel by Saki published by 10-18 in 1991 in a French paperback edition.
The narrative opens in the living room of Francesca Bassington's house on Blue Street, where the hostess and her brother Henry drink Chinese tea and eat small watercress sandwiches. The scene underscores the measured elegance of the food: enough to satisfy the moment, evocative of a successful lunch and looking forward to a dinner to come.
The volume also includes the story «Reginald au Carlton» and other unpublished stories.
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.
