A review by mimima
The Pooh Perplex by Frederick Crews

3.0

Embarrassingly, I didn't realize that this was satire when I bought it, but what great satire it was. A collection of essays that skewers literary criticism with fake critiques of Winnie-the-Pooh. It's all here - Marxist, Freudian, religious symbolism, and the text of a faux lecture. For me, the most brilliant part was the essay questions at the end.

Like much of satire, it's a bit uneven, some of the essays work better than others. However, the ones that are spot-on are so brilliant.