It’s interesting how despite all the efforts to crush the idea, as it were, of national character it’s far more resilient than its opponents. With appropriate levity then I recommend the great Hungarian, George Mikes’ classic ‘How to be A Brit’ an expanded version of his 1946 How to be an Alien- an author who could teach all of us a bit about writing for fun ....
And more seriously I’d recommend Benedict’s great Patterns of Culture for those whose training skated round such traditions - not about Britain but very much about the seriousness of the issue
Michael
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> On 20 Jul 2019, at 12:47, Rina Sherman K éditeur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> There is of course :
>
> *The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners*
>
> Cloth | Delacorte Press, New York, August, 1975 - 304 pages - ISBN
> 044007794X
>
> First US trade edition. White inside cover pastedowns.
>
> Even Donleavy himself is reluctant to categorize this book, hinting that
> perhaps it is still fiction. It's most often found listed as nonfiction,
> however. A guide to social climbing and survival in the asphalt jungle as
> only Donleavy could write. Not for the easily offended and wonderfully
> about as non-politically correct as could be. Also rife with illustrations
> by the author.
>
>
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> Author of whom I made a cineportrait in which he reads from the original
> notes files for this volume:
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>
>
>
> Donleavy has stated that he has completed notes for another book with the
> working title "The Unexpurgated Code of Growing Old."
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>
>
>
> J. P. Donleavy, I Write About People I Like
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> HDV, 78 min, 2012
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> [image: JP Donleavy by Rina Sherman]
>
> A portrait of pre-eminent literary bohemian, J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American
> novelist and playright, author of the best-selling cult novel "The Ginger
> Man", one of the Modern Library 100 best novels, banned in Ireland and the
> United States by reason of obscenity. Filmed at his estate Levington Park
> where he lives as a semi-reclusive gentleman farmer, the author explains
> how he came to own Olympia press, the publisher of Nabokov's Lolita,
> following years of court procedures to save his first novel from
> publication in a pornographic collection. Arguably the funniest living
> American novelist, he comments on the important characters in his work and
> reads notes from the original manuscript of one of his recent books, "The
> Unexpurgated Code".
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>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 11:12, Yohai Hakak <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
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>> I am looking for recommendations on literature exploring key British
>> cultural characteristics in daily interactions such as:
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>> - the British understatement
>> - the tendency to avoid direct talk or the difficulty in calling a spade 'a
>> spade'
>> - queuing
>> - British manners, for example apologising and saying thank you
>> - minimal bodily contact
>> - anything else you think is uniquely British and might manifest itself in
>> every day interactions
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>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>>
>> Yohai
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