A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands - Softcover

Andy Croft; Nigel Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910170046 ISBN 13: 9781910170045

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications, 2014

Synopsis

'I hope it is no crime / To laugh at all things', wrote Byron in Don Juan; 'for I wish to know / What, after all, are all things but a show' Two hundred years after Byron turned his back on the hypocrisy and cant of his native England, fifteen contemporary poets pay homage to Byron s greatest satirical creation by writing a new Don Juan for our own age of cant. A Modern Don Juan follows the sexual adventures of Byron's picaresque anti-hero in the twenty-first century. Mixing Low Comedy and High Seriousness, the book follows night-club DJ Donald Johnson as he stumbles from one romantic disaster to the next. Along the way, the authors pass comment on the customs and common-sense of the contemporary world. Donny seeks his fortune in Cameron's Britain, Berlusconi's Italy and Sydney's clubland. He is a London restaurant critic, a Brussels Eurocrat and a reality TV celeb. If you are quick you can catch him in Greece, Budapest, Central America, a prison cell even in Outer Space. He is indeed new Don Juan for the twenty-first century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1910170046
• ISBN 13: 9781910170045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360