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Right Ho, Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse

Right Ho, Jeeves

Autor P. G. Wodehouse
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 noi 2018

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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781731703996
ISBN-10: 1731703996
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Simon & Brown

De ce să citești această carte

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.

Despre autor

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.

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:

`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

Descriere scurtă

Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, 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 (some of whom it introduces), and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 October 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 23 December 1933 to 27 January 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on Thank You, Jeeves. Sections of the story were adapted into episodes of the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster. Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela. In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with a goofy, sentimental, whimsical, childish girl named Madeline Bassett. Gussie, a shy teetotaler with a passion for newts and a face like a fish, is too timid to speak to her. Bertie is annoyed that his friends consider Jeeves more intelligent than Bertie, and he takes Gussie's case in hand, ordering Jeeves not to offer any more advice. Madeline, a friend of Bertie's cousin Angela, is staying at Brinkley Court (country seat of Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom). Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie come to Brinkley Court to make a speech and present the school prizes to students at the local grammar school, which he considers a fearsome task. Bertie sends Gussie to Brinkley Court in his place, so that Gussie will have the chance to woo Madeline there, but also so that Gussie will be forced to take on the unpleasant job of distributing the school prizes. When Angela breaks her engagement to the athletic but heavy Tuppy Glossop, Bertie feels obliged to go down to Brinkley Court to comfort Aunt Dahlia. In addition to her worry about Angela's broken engagement, Aunt Dahlia is anxious because she has lost 500 pounds gambling at Cannes, and now needs to ask her miserly husband Tom to replace the money in order to keep financing her magazine, Milady's Boudoir. Bertie advises her to arouse Uncle Tom's concern for her by pretending to have lost her appetite through worry. He offers similar advice to Tuppy, to win back Angela. He also offers the same advice to Gussie, to show his love for Madeline. All take his advice, and the resulting return of plates of untasted food upsets Aunt Dahlia's temperamental prized chef Anatole, who gives notice to quit. Not unreasonably, Aunt Dahlia blames Bertie for this disaster.

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.