Talk:The Short Reign of Pippin IV

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Verbcatcher (talk) 20:13, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Background

What prompted Steinbeck to write this ? Did he have an interest in French politics ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:26, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering that. Mocking the dubious concept of 'constitutional' monarchy ? Pointing out communists are idiots ? Preaching the good word of American polity ?

Sounds like copy writers in the 1950s would have labelled it 'Hilarious', as they did so many so-so works of film and prose: think I'll give it a miss though. Claverhouse (talk) 20:42, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Read it and chuckle.

Steinbeck puts the boot well and truly into the States and its ‘polity’. In fact, the book serves as a merry critique of all republics, starting with his own. The character of Tod, son of a billionaire California ‘chicken king’ savagely, accurately, analyses American politics, business and society.

The plot summary given in this article is simplistic. It wasn’t just ‘the Communists’ who wanted change; there was a whole raft of malcontent minor parties and cliques with wildly oppositional attitudes, including the Christian Atheists and the Non-Taxpayers Alliance…

‘The Short Reign’ might rank as a Roman à clef whose purpose was to satirise the USA of the era when Steinbeck wrote it, making rather gentle fun of the French by way of comparison with his own nation’s mid-1950s muddled thinking.

It’s also a rather engaging pastiche of the late 19th century novel. On the whole, ‘Pippin’ is a ‘’ jeu d’esprit’’. Steinbeck was able at that stage of his career and fame as a writer to publish almost anything he chose. Like his ‘Acts of King Arthur’ which I simply could not get through.

203.40.153.235 (talk) 04:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]