[ilds] Who is the Ripper?

[Bruce Redwine]

Ken,

Interesting question about that quagmire The Avignon Quintet.  “The Ripper’s Tale” is the subtitle of Quinx (1985).  Who is the “Ripper” in that novel?  I take it to be Sutcliffe, as suggested in this passage, “But SUT became slowly so popular that he became detached like a retina, or else loosed like a soap-bubble to float about in the public consciousness like a sort of myth.  He had made the English language, had the old Ripper, while Blanford had hardly made Who’s Who” (p. 1194, 1992 ed.).  But the sentence is ambiguous:  either Sutcliffe is “the old Ripper” or he “had made [the old Ripper].”  Dunno.  As far as characterization goes, Mnemidis is definitely a Jack the Ripper type, in Sebastian, that is.  He’s not in the last novel.  Moreover, how is Quinx “the Ripper’s tale?”

Bruce





> On May 11, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Kennedy Gammage <gammage.kennedy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> May I ask a related question? Isn't Mnemidis "The Ripper"? Even though that's the subtitle of a different volume?
> 
> Thanks - Ken
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:04 AM, <mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org <mailto:mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org>> wrote:
> I'm coming late to the question of LDurrell and film. It's worth recalling that in "Sebastian" Mnemidis browses outside cinemas offering ?Queue de Beton or The Concrete Prick ... Plein le Cul or A Cuntfull and further on Les Encul?es or The Buggered? (pp. 1129-30 of the 1-vol edn).On the evidence of the notebook for Sebastian Durrell himself had noted such film titles on a visit to Paris in 1982: CERLD inv. 1359, pp. 28-9. Noted, one notes, not "seen".Oh dear me no.
> Richard Pine
> Durrell Library of Corfu

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