Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
Auteur de Zuleika dobson / Une histoire d'amour à Oxford
A propos de l'auteur
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was born in England in 1872. In his twenties, Beerbohm became part of the literary circle of Oscar Wilde, and in 1898 he became the drama critic for the Saturday Review. His predecessor George Bernard Shaw recommended Beerbohm for this position supposedly because of afficher plus Beerbohm's attacks on Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, one of Shaw's own works. It was also Shaw who gave Beerbohm the nickname The Incomparable Max. Beerbohm was known primarily for his sharp wit, often expressed in parody and satire, His first book The Works of Max Beerbohm was a collection of essays in a mock-scholarly format. Other essay collections include Yet Again, And Even Now, Around Theatres, and Mainly on the Air, which was based on a series of radio broadcasts. His fiction includes one novel titled Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story and numerous short stories. Many of his short stories have been published in such collections as The Happy Hypocrite, Seven Men, and A Variety of Things. Beerbohm's flair for humor and parody was carried over into his art. He was a gifted caricaturist and was as well known for his drawings as for his writing. His drawings have been published in the collections Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, The Second Childhood of John Bull, A Book of Caricatures, Fifty Caricatures, Rosetti and His Circle, and Things Old and New. Beerbohm resigned from the Saturday Review in 1910 when he married Florence Kahn, an American actress, and they retired to Rapallo, Italy. The Beerbohms returned to England for several years during World War II, but in 1947 they returned to Rapallo where Beerbohm died in 1956. Beerbohm was knighted in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) 1. Max Beerbohm, poet and author.
2. Max Beerbohm, 'Bootstrap 4'
Crédit image: Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, Jan. 15, 1908, London
Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery
(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery
(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Œuvres de Max Beerbohm
Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters, 1893-1945 (1975) 12 exemplaires
Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen 3 exemplaires
Meditations of a refugee 2 exemplaires
The Mote in the Middle Distance 2 exemplaires
Ten Years Ago ... [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Bernard Shaw & Max Beerbohm at Covent Garden 2 exemplaires
Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Ghosts," 1 exemplaire
The poet and his books 1 exemplaire
The crime, an essay from And even now [and] London revisited, a broadcast essay from Mainly on the air 1 exemplaire
Catalogue of a memorial exhibition of drawings by Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956): With a foreword by John Rothenstein 1 exemplaire
Cartoons. "The second childhood of John Bull" 1 exemplaire
Max Beerbohm and Arthur Conan Doyle 1 exemplaire
Six Stories 1 exemplaire
Max Beerbohm and H. Crouch Batchelor 1 exemplaire
L'ipocrita felice e altri racconti 1 exemplaire
3 by Beerbohm 1 exemplaire
AROUND THEATRES, Volume ii 1 exemplaire
Selection from Around Theatres 1 exemplaire
Around Theatres Vol. 1 1 exemplaire
Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton 1 exemplaire
'Savonarola' Brown 1 exemplaire
La Reliqia (Racconto) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 938 exemplaires, 7 critiques
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contributeur — 464 exemplaires, 4 critiques
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (1930) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 248 exemplaires, 9 critiques
Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) — Contributeur — 175 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language (1955) — Contributeur — 138 exemplaires, 1 critique
Portrait of Max; an intimate memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm (1960) — Subject — 127 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus) (2004) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires, 1 critique
The New Forget-Ne-Not : A Calendar — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Uncertain Element: An Anthology of Fantastic Conceptions — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Beerbohm, Max
- Nom légal
- Beerbohm, Henry Maximilian
- Date de naissance
- 1872-08-24
- Date de décès
- 1956-05-20
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Rapallo, Italy
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK(birth)
Rapallo, Italy - Études
- Oxford University (Merton College)
Charterhouse School - Professions
- parodist
caricaturist
novelist
essayist - Relations
- Beerbohm Tree, Herbert (half-brother)
- Organisations
- Abinger Chronicle (editor)
- Prix et distinctions
- Knight Bachelor (1939)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1943) - Notice de désambigüisation
- 1. Max Beerbohm, poet and author.
2. Max Beerbohm, 'Bootstrap 4'
Membres
Critiques
And even now, and A Christmas garland (A Dutton… par Max Beerbohm
To be honest, I've been rereading some of these pieces here and elsewhere, and I like this stuff better than his novel Zuleka Dobson. He's got a light touch as a writer; he's wry, and he can be surprisingly poignant. The piece about a couple he once knew "William and Mary" is quietly touching.
½
Quitting at 18%. I find the strange writing style with constantly inverted word order annoying, the tone irritating and the 'plot' slow to develop.
He's an engaging, albeit dated prose stylist, and he can be very amusing. But this book proceeds to it's conclusion, and then kind of meanders around for several more chapters. There are odd bits of business, like the ghosts of George Sand and Chopin dropping in on a central character's piano recital. Actually ghosts abound in this book. If you like Wodehouse you'll find things to like here, but it's reputation as a timeless classic is a little much.
Maybe even 4½ stars... This satire of undergraduate behavior is still hilarious over 100 years after it was written! The basic story is about how the young men of Oxford react when Zuleika Dobson, the beautiful niece of the college Warden, arrives in their midst.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 83
- Aussi par
- 44
- Membres
- 3,278
- Popularité
- #7,810
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 64
- ISBN
- 282
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 19
