【BOOK LOVERS专享87元】S. J. Perelman 美国最滑稽的幽默作家 西德尼·J·佩雷尔曼 Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in Books and Film Library of America 美国文库 英文英语原版 美国作家最权威版本 平装
The complete series in one volume for the first time: All 22 essays by one of America’s great humorists as he revisits the books and movies from his youth—often with some embarrassment.
Over a five-year period in the late 1940s and early 1950s, regular readers of The New Yorker were treated to humorist S. J. Perelman’s “Cloudland Revisited” series, witty and withering reviews of the pulp fiction and silent films that had enthralled the comic genius in his youth. Among the once-innocent-now-guilty pleasures featured were George Barr McCutcheon’s 1901 historical fantasy novel Graustark—the Game of Thrones of its era; Gertrude Atherton’s sensationalist fantasy Black Oxen; Sax Rohmer’s blockbuster supervillain novel The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu; and the “underwater” silent film adaptation of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Largely forgotten when the series originally appeared, and unknown to many today, these and other works enjoy a hilarious second life in Perelman’s unjustly neglected masterpiece.
All twenty-two of Perelman’s backward glances are brought together for the first time in this deluxe paperback edition. In his introduction, Adam Gopnik, another beloved New Yorker writer, reflects on the pleasures of the “Cloudland” series and how it anticipates our own pop-culture obsessions. The series “set the pattern for the American pop-art memoir,” Gopnik writes, “where a literary life is revealed through its engagement not with the high culture of its time but in a kind of meta-tussle with its mass-market overcharge, in a tone by turns affectionate, exasperated, nostalgic, and ironic.”
Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904–1979) was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, in which he first published many of his humorous essays and sketches. He also wrote film scripts for the Marx Brothers and shared an Oscar in 1956 with James Poe and James Farrow for the screenplay of Around the World in Eighty Days.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Adam Gopnik Into Your Tent I’ll Creep Tuberoses and Tigers How Ruritanian Can You Get? Sodom in the Suburbs Lady, Play Your Endocrines Great Aches from Little Boudoirs Grow Antic Hey-Hey Why, Doctor, What Big Green Eyes You Have! Rock-a-Bye, Viscount, in the Treetop Four-and-Twenty Blackjacks Oh, Sing Again That Song of Venery When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Films . . . Roll on, Thou Deep and Dark Scenario, Roll Vintage Swine The Wickedest Woman in Larchmont I’m Sorry I Made Me Cry By the Waters of Razz-Ma-Tazz “M” Is for the Migraine That She Gave Me Mayfair Mama, Turn Your Damper Down Hungarian Goulash, with Battered Noodles It Takes Two to Tango, but Only One to Squirm Shades of Young Girls among the Flummery
From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humourist S. J. Perelman's 'Cloudland Revisited' series: 22 reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Perelman's youth and made an indelible mark on him. In the comic genius's biting satire they live once again: Gertrude Atherton's sensationalist fantasy Black Oxen; Sax Rohmer's supervillain blockbuster The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu; the 'underwater' silent film adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea; Edgar Rice Burrough's 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes; and George Barr McCutcheon's 1901 historical fantasy novel Graustark-the Game of Thrones of its era-which launched numerous sequels and film adaptations. The complete series is collected here for the first time. With self-deprecating humour and frequent embarrassment, Perelman reflects on how rereading and rewatching brings us in contact with how we, like an old book or film, have both changed and remained the same. This paperback includes a tribute to Perelman's art by another beloved New Yorker writer, Adam Gopnik.
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