| Levy's mourning involves a considered ironizing of the conditions both of sympathy and rationality. |
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| In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners. |
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| His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion. |
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| Past is everywhere present in Homage, and the book's blend of reverence and ironizing gamesmanship regarding that past is announced on the cover. |
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