SOURCE: Review of Putting my Foot in It, in World Literature Today, Vol. 67, Issue 2, Spring, 1993, p. 333.

In the following review, Genova praises Les pieds dans le plat for its humor and satirical insight.

In 1954 Salvador Dalí wrote in his foreword to René Crevel's novel La mort difficile, “Crevel offers a new bombshell in the genre of confrontation.” The same holds true for Crevel's 1933 novel Les pieds dans le plat, long considered a classic of surrealism. This, Crevel's third novel to be translated into English, presents a direct yet humorous critique of the intellectual, political, and artistic corruption of post-World War I France. Through the bizarre story of “the Prince of Journalists,” Crevel constructs a biting satire of hypocrisy and affectation in the literary circles of his era.

Thomas Buckley's exceptional translation is preceded by an incisive introduction by Edouard Roditi, who knew Crevel in the 1930s, and by...