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S. J. Perelman (1904–1979)

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S. J. Perelman was a prolific humorist and satirist at the New Yorker for almost half a century. His contributions had a surrealistic quality in style and in subject that elicited from Dorothy Parker the judgment that he had "a disciplined eye and a wild mind" and "a magnificent disregard" for his visa mer reader. His raillery was aimed at popular fiction, motion pictures, advertising, and similar features of our transient culture. In his preferred form, a short drama, Perelman excelled in the unconventional, the concentrated, the sophisticated in humor. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Verk av S. J. Perelman

Crazy Like a Fox (1947) 234 exemplar
The Last Laugh (1981) 179 exemplar
The Rising Gorge (1961) 128 exemplar
Westward Ha! (1948) 120 exemplar
Eastward Ha! (1977) 98 exemplar
Baby, It's Cold Inside (1961) 93 exemplar
The road to Miltown; or, Under the spreading atrophy (1957) — Författare — 89 exemplar
Acres and Pains (1947) 85 exemplar
The Swiss Family Perelman (1950) 81 exemplar
Chicken Inspector No. 23 (1966) 74 exemplar
Vinegar Puss (1975) 63 exemplar
S. J. Perelman: Writings (2021) 60 exemplar
Fyra fräcka fripassagerare (1931) — Writer — 54 exemplar
Listen to the Mocking Bird (1942) 34 exemplar
Keep it crisp (1943) 33 exemplar
The Ill-tempered Clavichord (1952) 32 exemplar
One Touch of Venus (1944) 15 exemplar
Perelman's Home Companion (1955) 14 exemplar
The Dream Department (1943) 12 exemplar
Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929) 7 exemplar
Strictly from hunger (1937) 7 exemplar
Look Who's Talking! (1940) 6 exemplar
L'Oeil de l'idole (2011) 5 exemplar
Bite the Bullet (1957) 4 exemplar
Nostasia In Asia 1 exemplar
Ready, Aim, Flee! 1 exemplar
Mad About The Girl 1 exemplar

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The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 774 exemplar
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Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 388 exemplar
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 354 exemplar
Amerikan i Paris (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 297 exemplar
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 291 exemplar
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 207 exemplar
Remarkable Names of Real People (1972) — Preface, vissa utgåvor97 exemplar
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 82 exemplar
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 82 exemplar
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
A Treasury of American Humor (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Tall Short Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
The Bathroom Reader (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Great Tales of the Far West (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Diners' Delight: the Best of the Diners' Club Magazine (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Perelman, S. J.
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Perelman, Sidney Joseph
Födelsedag
1904-02-01
Avled
1979-10-17
Begravningsplats
cremated
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dödsort
New York, New York, USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA (death)
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
London, England, UK
Brooklyn, New York, USA (birth)
Utbildning
Brown University (BA|1924)
Yrken
humorist
essayist
screenwriter
short story writer
playwright
satirist
Relationer
West, Nathanael (brother-in-law)
Perelman, Laura (wife)
Organisationer
The New Yorker
Algonquin Round Table
Priser och utmärkelser
Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1956)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1958)
Kort biografi
Sidney Joseph Perelman was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Providence. He entered Brown University in 1921 as a daily commuter. After leaving college, he worked as a cartoonist and later writer for Judge magazine and for College Humor magazine and in the early 1930s he went to Hollywood and worked as a script writer. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1934. In 1970, Perelman left the USA to live in London but returned to New York in 1972.

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Stephen Leacock having stopped writing humour, Mr. Perelman stepped up to be the most celebrated American Humourist of his day. e was often amusing, and sometimes quite funny. this is the efficient way to absorb what you will of his scope, talents, and ambitions.
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DinadansFriend | 6 andra recensioner | Nov 12, 2023 |
S.J. Perelman was an American humorist, best known for his short pieces in The New Yorker and for writing two of the best Marx Brothers films. This collection of New Yorker stories is not necessarily best read in large chunks (it's a massive collection), but rather as one takes appetizers. Perelman may have the best vocabulary of any American writer I've ever read. His turns of phrase are often brilliant and made more so by the astonishing range of words with which he turns those phrases. The pieces are largely divided into two kinds: those in which an event or a news item or such has caught his attention and he spins off a scenario or readers' theatre script satirizing its foibles, and those in which he recounts adventures from his own life. All of these are wonderfully amusing, but the real laughs I found to reside almost always in his tales of his own experiences. Included is a portion of Westward Ha!, a hilarious tellling of his 'round-the-world trip with Broadway caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and if the entire 600 pages of this book had been devoted to that trip, I would have been delighted. Also of particular interest are a couple of pieces relating to his friendship with Groucho Marx. It's no wonder that Perelman wrote so well for the Marxes, as his somewhat surreal sense of humor is a great match for theirs. Perelman is for comic writing, as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are for hardboiled stories, one of the great purveyors of a kind of language that doesn't exist anymore except in parody or homage, an ironic, witty, and utterly of-its-time style that defies (for me at least) explanation or precise definition, but which is the soul of American letters in the 1920s and '30s.… (mer)
 
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jumblejim | 6 andra recensioner | Aug 26, 2023 |
I would have given it 0 stars if I could.
 
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Verk
70
Även av
28
Medlemmar
2,255
Popularitet
#11,372
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
34
ISBN
87
Språk
4
Favoritmärkt
17

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