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Chargement... The Angry Island: Hunting the Englishpar A. A. Gill
  
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) sfj2 | Mar 10, 2024 |   ) KateSavage | Mar 29, 2019 |  ) SeriousGrace | Jun 19, 2018 | But my goodness, is he ever funny. This is a look at what makes England England. Although he's definitely an insider, having lived there since he was a baby, he looks at England as an outsider (he was born in Scotland) and his observations make for a very enjoyable read. ( ) quiBee | Jan 21, 2016 | Gill writes about city people moving to the Cotswolds to lead what they think will be romantic lives, the deeper meaning of queues, the many reasons the English will say "sorry", the anger that political correctness has caused, and most of all, the need to see themselves as fair and funny. His essay on English humor, in which he theorizes that the basis is anger, is hilarious, as he visits tiny stand-up clubs and sits through painfully unfunny comedy acts. "All I want to do during a stand-up act is heckle. I don't want to shout obscenities, or offer wit. I just want to ask what they think they're really doing. What is it all about? Is it about being ugly and unappreciated? Is it a sort of endurance thing, like climbing a cliff? Because it's obviously got nothing to do with the audience or the money or the approbation. It's like watching someone have a cathartic moment of self-loathing, auto-humiliation. I never do heckle, of course, but I'm always on the side of the heckler. Whatever they shout, I think: they're actually paramedics trying to talk someone down." ( )1  mstrust | Jan 1, 2015 |
Stow-in-the-Wold is the worst place in the world, and I say that without exaggeration as someone who has visited Darfur. It's full of Agas and 4x4s, though I'm not sure where this is leading anymore. Still, the English always say sorry in an angry fashion, so I make no apologies for wasting your time. Like many writers running short of material, I went back to visit my school in Letchworth Garden Town, so I'd better write something about how Fascistically angry the English garden is, and while I'm on the subject of me, I should point out I used to be an alcoholic - though I was a top-up drinker, not an angry, objectionable binge drinker like the English. The English like queues, losing at sport and nostalgia. All classic Jungian signs of anger. Indeed, left to themselves, the English are destined to be remembered as little more than a cul-de-sac in history. Much like this book. The Digested read, digested: AA puts the English on the couch but merely exposes himself.
Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty, personal and readable book, A.A. Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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