THE ENORMITY OF TRAGEDY

At once a dirty joke and a highbrow novel, The Enormity of the tragedy tells the story of Ramon-Maria, a balding, trumpet-playing wi dower who lives with his angry stepdaughter Anna-Francesca in a house full of books left over from his failed publishing concern. On e night, having persuaded the lovely leading lady of a burlesque show to take him home, Ramon-Maria finds himself too drunk and nerv ous to make love to her. But the next morning he finds that his body has compensated for its earlier lethargy with an indefatigable erection.