caricatural

On “Portnoy’s Complaint,” by Philip Roth: “It is brilliant. But caricatural and pseudo-literary,” with “comic strip characters.”

Zelensky’s almost caricatural charisma, obviously, encourages us to cheer for the good guys.

“Certain things were not as caricatural as one might have thought,” Sarah Mazouz, a sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, said, referring to Mr. Macron’s comments on France’s colonial legacy.

There is also “Queen Vicky,” a caricatural African figure carrying a coconut, whose skirt shelters a figure Ms. Walker calls “Melancholy.”

“There’s a tradition of writers as diplomats in France, so I certainly wasn’t the first, but it was like I had been put in a box as a writer and I’d dared to come out of it. The row was deplorable, violent and caricatural. Of course I was hurt,” he says.