Not a Gentleman: The Irish Buddhist

Post by chris_st » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 5:26 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #10

chris_st wrote: post #8

> Despite their fascination with their subject, the authors of this splendid and intriguing work have forgone the temptations of pseudonymity, each writing under her and his own name. Can someone explain this to me? Why would the writer of a work of history be tempted to write under a pseudonym?

As the context provides, the critic is simply making a callback to a character from an earlier book written by one of the authors. It's not actually tempting to use a pseudonym; the critic is trying to add some color to the review.