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Chargement... P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography (1982)par Frances Donaldson
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) EmilyRaible | Sep 27, 2022 |  losloper | Jun 6, 2010 | Wodehouse was wrong to broadcast for he Germans during the Second World War. This is fact, and the page after page of tortured explanation Ms. Donaldson presents simply highlights this. I also find it difficult to take this man, who wrote amusing books, as some gift to literature. Wodehouse's books are fun, but are they really a great addition to World Literature? The first part of the book, covering Wodehouse's life until he went to Germany, is presented in such a tediously dry manner that I almost gave up on it. It is written with all the gravitas of a degree thesis, but has no objectivity. When Wodehouse insults fellow authors, they deserve it but, when any slightly derogatory remark is made about him , or his books, then opprobrium pours from the page. It is almost impossible to believe that the man portrayed in this book would be capable of producing the light, amusing works that Wodehouse did: I must,therefore, look for another biography of the man in the hope of building a more balanced picture of him. (  ) the.ken.petersen | Apr 17, 2008 |
 Somewhat as if Robinson Crusoe tried to tell Man Friday about Yorkshire pudding, it’s hard to explain Wodehouse to the uninitiated. He evolved a comedy of manners and a mannered style that came into perfect fluency and equilibrium by the early Thirties. In the early Fifties that tautness of control began to slacken. I myself believe that he reached the summit of his careful art with The Code of the Woosters, published in 1938, and Joy in the Morning, largely written as the Germans were preparing to invade France, polished as they bore Wodehouse off from Le Touquet to internment in Germany, and published after the war. His latest biographer, Frances Donaldson, believes the peak came earlier, with Thank You, Jeeves, in 1934. Wodehouse himself preferred Quick Service, published in 1940. It is not a dispute of much importance. By the mid-Thirties Hilaire Belloc was broadcasting to America his view that Wodehouse was “the best living writer of English” and there are at least half a dozen books in the decade surrounding that dictum to which admirers can reach, if asked to furnish proofs of Belloc’s veracity.
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HTML: Everyone has come to love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie. But what of their creator, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, whose ninety-three years produced a volume of work "unsurpassed in the history of literature"? Was he really a traitor to his country who broadcast dangerous propaganda from Germany during the war? And how can this be squared with the immensely lovable figure of "Plum", upon whom the Queen bestowed a knighthood in 1975? In researching this authorized, definitive biography, Frances Donaldson was given unique access to Wodehouse's most important private papers, including the notebooks he kept during the sad episode of his internment during the Second World War. For the first time, Wodehouse's beliefs, writings and actions are seen in the full context of the rest of his life. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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