Beau geste novel6/25/2023 ![]() In the course of the 3 upper-class Geste boys running away from their aunt’s manor house and joining the French Foreign Legion, we encounter nigs, niggers, Injuns, Arab squaws, dagos, aborigines of the Congo, and a Jewish Cockney pawnbroker drawn to stereotype and referred to sarcastically as a Child of Israel or simply, “the Child”.Īlthough Beau Geste is a book of its time, the author does seem aware of the atrocities committed by King Leopold of Belgium’s men in the Congo, and makes it clear he doesn’t approve. ![]() ![]() I’m not in favor of banning books–I’m in favor of reading them to deeply understand history.Īnd there is plenty here to offend just about everyone. Not because I subscribe to its old-fashioned arrogance and casual racism, but because I feel it’s important to know how societies thought, felt, and acted in former times. I’m glad this adventure novel is still around. Courtesy of a special order from Auntie’s Bookstore ![]()
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