Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. On the Benefits of Optimism
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. On the Benefits of Optimism
19.99 €
The first Russian biography of the author of Jeeves and Wooster
Alexander Livergant is a literary scholar, translator, editor-in-chief of the journal Foreign Literature, and professor at Russian State University. He is the author of biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf. The new book "Pelham Granville Woodhouse. On the usefulness of optimism" - the first in Russian portrait of the largest English humorist of the twentieth century in the literary, theatrical, social and political interior of the era. "In September 1915, the Philadelphia magazine "Saturday Evening Post" printed the story "To the rescue of young Gussie", which would be nothing special, if not for two short, insignificant lines. First, the recently hired butler tells his master: "Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir." And then, when the master - a young hustler - informs the butler that they are going to America, he takes, as a butler should, under the visor: "Very good, sir. What suit will you wear?" Who could have foreseen that these passing lines would go down in the annals of English literature? And yet that is exactly what happened, for they marked the birth of a famous couple: Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. "Now that I have written so much about him," Woodhouse will note half a century later, "it seems funny how quietly and imperceptibly entered Jeeves into my life ... I blush at the thought that during our first meeting I treated him so cavalierly".
Alexander Livergant is a literary scholar, translator, editor-in-chief of the journal Foreign Literature, and professor at Russian State University. He is the author of biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf. The new book "Pelham Granville Woodhouse. On the usefulness of optimism" - the first in Russian portrait of the largest English humorist of the twentieth century in the literary, theatrical, social and political interior of the era. "In September 1915, the Philadelphia magazine "Saturday Evening Post" printed the story "To the rescue of young Gussie", which would be nothing special, if not for two short, insignificant lines. First, the recently hired butler tells his master: "Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir." And then, when the master - a young hustler - informs the butler that they are going to America, he takes, as a butler should, under the visor: "Very good, sir. What suit will you wear?" Who could have foreseen that these passing lines would go down in the annals of English literature? And yet that is exactly what happened, for they marked the birth of a famous couple: Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. "Now that I have written so much about him," Woodhouse will note half a century later, "it seems funny how quietly and imperceptibly entered Jeeves into my life ... I blush at the thought that during our first meeting I treated him so cavalierly".
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