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Right Ho, Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse

Right Ho, Jeeves

Autor P. G. Wodehouse
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iul 2019

Ritmul lecturii în Right Ho, Jeeves este unul efervescent, o succesiune de situații comice care se acumulează cu o viteză amețitoare, păstrând în același timp eleganța unei partituri muzicale bine exersate. Găsim în acest al doilea roman de lungă întindere dedicat tandemului inegalabil format din Bertie Wooster și înțeleptul său valet, Jeeves, chintesența umorului britanic interbelic. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care P. G. Wodehouse construiește dezastrul: totul pornește de la dorința naivă a lui Bertie de a-și demonstra independența intelectuală. Refuzând sfaturile lui Jeeves, el preia frâiele destinului amoros al timidului Gussie Fink-Nottle — un pasionat de tritoni cu o figură de pește — și reușește, cu o precizie chirurgicală, să transforme o vizită la Brinkley Court într-un haos generalizat. În tradiția volumului Carry On, Jeeves, acest roman continuă să exploreze dinamica de putere dintre stăpân și servitor, însă aici mizele sunt mai mari, iar structura narativă este mai densă. Dacă în povestirile scurte precum cele din The Best Sauce asistăm la rezolvări rapide, Right Ho, Jeeves îi oferă autorului spațiul necesar pentru a complica intriga până la punctul în care demisia bucătarului Anatole sau pierderile la jocuri de noroc ale mătușii Dahlia devin piese esențiale într-un puzzle al erorilor. Reținem finețea cu care Wodehouse ironizează aristocrația, păstrând un ton contemplativ asupra absurdului cotidian, într-o lume în care cea mai mare tragedie este refuzul de a mânca pentru a impresiona persoana iubită.

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ISBN-13: 9781618955739
ISBN-10: 161895573X
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bibliotech Press

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor care dorește să descopere de ce P. G. Wodehouse este considerat maestrul suprem al prozei umoristice. Veți câștiga o porție generoasă de buna-dispoziție și o lecție subtilă despre limitele încrederii în sine. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care apreciază dialogurile sclipitoare și personajele excentrice, oferind o evadare perfectă într-o Anglie idilică, unde orice încurcătură își găsește, în final, rezolvarea prin geniul unui valet.

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) a fost unul dintre cei mai citiți umoriști ai secolului XX, renumit pentru crearea unor personaje emblematice precum Bertie Wooster și Jeeves. Educat la Dulwich College, Wodehouse și-a început cariera scriind povești despre viața de școlar, evoluând rapid spre ficțiunea comică ce l-a consacrat. Dincolo de romanele sale, a adus contribuții majore la dezvoltarea musicalului american pe Broadway. Opera sa, care include serii celebre precum cele dedicate Castelului Blandings sau clubului de golf, reflectă un stil literar impecabil, transformând limba engleză într-un instrument al bucuriei pure.

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English writer whose body of work includes novels, collections of short stories, and musical theatre. Wodehouse enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his prolific writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "... there is not, and never will be anything to touch him." Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin - Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). Right Ho, Jeeves is the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. It was first published in the United Kingdom on October 5, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on October 15, 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. (wikipedia.org)

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`P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks`Jeeves, I'm engaged.'`I hope you will be very happy, sir.'`Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.'Bertie is feeling most put out when he finds that his friend Gussie is seeking relationship advice from Jeeves.

Meanwhile Aunt Dahlia has asked Bertie to present awards at a school prize-giving ceremony. In a stroke of genius, Bertie realises he can kill two birds with one stone, palming off his prize-giving duties to Gussie by assuring him that the object of his affections will be there. Several terrible misunderstandings later and facing chaos, Bertie turns, yet again, to Jeeves who swiftly and ingeniously saves the day.

`Sublime comic genius' Ben Elton

Notă biografică

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furor. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.