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The Inimitable Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves

Autor P. G. Wodehouse
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2020

Intrăm într-o lume a după-amiezelor însorite de vară, unde singurele griji sunt culoarea unei cravate sau dezaprobarea unei mătuși autoritare. Reținem în The Inimitable Jeeves acea atmosferă de eleganță relaxată și umor fin care a definit „Epoca de Aur” a literaturii britanice de divertisment. Deși structurată ca o serie de 11 povestiri, lucrarea capătă coeziunea unui roman prin prezența recurentă a personajelor și a situațiilor absurde în care ajunge tânărul aristocrat Bertie Wooster. Cine a citit Carry On, Jeeves va recunoaște aici aceeași dinamică savuroasă între stăpânul bine intenționat, dar aerian, și valetul său dotat cu o inteligență sclipitoare. Totuși, acest volum se distinge prin focalizarea pe peripețiile amoroase ale lui Bingo Little, ale cărui pasiuni fulgerătoare necesită intervenția constantă a „cerebelului” lui Jeeves. Spre deosebire de tonul mai fragmentat al altor colecții, aici simțim o continuitate narativă mai puternică, în special în episoadele care implică familia Glossop sau pe temuta Mătușă Agatha. Față de scrierile sale mai târzii, precum Sam the Sudden, unde intriga capătă uneori accente de farsă cu elemente de suspans, acest volum rămâne ancorat în puritatea comediei de situație și a dialogului sclipitor. Este o experiență de lectură marcată de un ritm impecabil, în care limba engleză este folosită cu o precizie muzicală pentru a descrie cele mai ridicole dileme sociale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781647992705
ISBN-10: 1647992702
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bibliotech Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să descopere originile umorului britanic modern. Cititorul câștigă acces la o lume a optimismului incurabil, unde nicio problemă nu este prea mare pentru a fi rezolvată de o minte sclipitoare și un ceai bine servit. Este doza perfectă de escapism literar pentru cei care apreciază ironia fină și personajele memorabile care au definit cariera lui P. G. Wodehouse.

Despre autor

Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) a fost unul dintre cei mai citiți și apreciați umoriști ai secolului XX. De-a lungul unei cariere prodigioase, a creat universuri literare inconfundabile, de la Castelul Blandings până la clubul Drones. Deși a început cu povești despre viața școlară, celebritatea sa este legată indisolubil de personajele Bertie Wooster și Jeeves. Stilul său, care îmbină argoul edwardian cu referințe clasice, a influențat generații de scriitori. Wodehouse a fost și un prolific autor de comedii muzicale pe Broadway, experiență care i-a rafinat simțul pentru ritmul dialogului și structura farsei, elemente vizibile în toate scrierile sale.

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third 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 jolly gentleman of leisure 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. Most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, although 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. He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in 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 in the studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words. After the scenario was complete he would write the story. Early in his career he would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months. He used a mixture of Edwardian slang, quotations from and allusions to numerous poets, and several literary techniques to produce a prose style that has been compared to comic poetry and musical comedy. Some critics of Wodehouse have considered his work flippant, but among his fans are former British prime ministers and many of his fellow writers. (wikipedia.org)

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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.

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"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -Evelyn Waugh "Wodehouse is one of the funniest and most productive men who ever wrote in English. He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a kind of comic poetry." -Richard Voorhees First published in 1923, The Inimitable Jeeves follows young Bertie Wooster as he complicates every attempt to aid the easily confused Bingo Little's pursuit of true love. Disaster surely awaits, unless they can trust in the intervention of Bertie's serenely competent valet, Jeeves.
The Inimitable Jeeves is a chain of short stories masterfully fused into a novel and one of the best-known books about the author's most famous characters, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Well meaning, but often clueless, man-about-town Bertie narrates his adventures with assorted friends and relatives. These deal primarily with his chum Bingo Little's astounding ability to fall instantly and randomly in love and then conceive of startlingly absurd methods of getting himself into his beloved's good graces. Wodehouse's joyous farce showcases his trademark vision of a timeless and comfortable England, a collection of generally less-than-perceptive characters, and most especially his sublime prose- deadpan, precise and ceaselessly inventive. The author's vision and style have proven uniquely his own, resist any attempt at imitation and will continue to offer readers entrance into a world of charm and urbane hilarity. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Inimitable Jeeves is both modern and readable.

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse chronicles the divinely hapless Bertie Wooster's attempts to assist a friend in matters of the heart, inevitably resulting in socially awkward and potentially calamitous difficulties that can only be solved by the smooth skills of his valet, Jeeves. A classic of polished prose and distinctly British humor.