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On Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Nov. 21st, 2014 05:05 pmI have just finished reading Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, which is the homage to PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster by Sebastian Faulks. I enjoyed it very much, I thought it very good but it has left me very sad.
Wodehouse is difficult to emulate and Faulks has been very open about having to tread a fine line between inadvertent parody, missing the airy feel of the original and just regurgitating stock Wodehouse. I think he largely succeeds. Faulks is a writer of more serious works than Wodehouse and Jeeves and the Wedding Bells feels like a Jeeves and Wooster story written by Faulks. It’s a little more serious, there’s a little more at stake than in, say, Code of the Woosters. This comes through in three ways, one of which made my happy, one slightly irritated and one very, very sad.
I’m not sure you can have spoilers in a Wodehouse novel but here be spoilers.( Those Spoilers as Advertised )
I really enjoyed the book. I hope one day Faulks will write another, although I think it unlikely.
Wodehouse is difficult to emulate and Faulks has been very open about having to tread a fine line between inadvertent parody, missing the airy feel of the original and just regurgitating stock Wodehouse. I think he largely succeeds. Faulks is a writer of more serious works than Wodehouse and Jeeves and the Wedding Bells feels like a Jeeves and Wooster story written by Faulks. It’s a little more serious, there’s a little more at stake than in, say, Code of the Woosters. This comes through in three ways, one of which made my happy, one slightly irritated and one very, very sad.
I’m not sure you can have spoilers in a Wodehouse novel but here be spoilers.( Those Spoilers as Advertised )
I really enjoyed the book. I hope one day Faulks will write another, although I think it unlikely.
