![]() ![]() Bemelmans has loved that world and made much of its naive splendors, even when he suspected that it was falling into green decay. Its setting is the nostalgic world of night clubs and champagne and diamond clusters. On it appear lovely ladies and graceful men, sad Indians and knowing servants, and incidental celebrities who might be straight from today's most fashionable gossip columns.īemelmans himself must tell - to each reader in his own way - the meaning of this tale. Their adventures in Casablanca, in New York, and finally on the old hacienda in Ecuador, are a saga of life, love, death and birth. This sportive party, at the approach of the war, sets out for America. more » s, Miss Graves, who carries her coffin with her when they travel. This includes a paragon of a cook (no Bemelmans book would be complete without fine food) an Indian to care for his dogs a fabulous secretary a mistress and the faithful English governes. The hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' first novel is one Leonidas Erosa, a South American general heavy with years and money, residing in Biarritz with his retinue. ![]()
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