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| Title | : | Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (Jewish Lives) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300174454 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
Meh George Needham The easiest way to ruin comedy is to psychoanalyze it. This book tries to do that to Groucho. Groucho wins. Skip this and read one of the many useful books about Groucho and his famous siblings.. Don't buy new Groucho book stanley fish This book is a total hatchet job by the author. His animosity towards the Marx brothers is evident on every page. I could not even finish the book because I was so disgusted with the author's pseudo-psychoanalysis of Groucho and his family. I couldn't tell if the author was jealous, envious, mean spirited, or just a creep. Why are some critics so critical and cannot appreciate a comic. Amazon Customer said Can I have my money back?. A painfully idiotic book. Talk about missing the point.
The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to approach his work analytically, this fascinating study draws unique connections between Groucho’s comedy and his life, concentrating primarily on the brothers’ classic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. Unlike previous uncritical and mostly reverential biographies, Siegel’s “bio-commentary” makes a distinctive contribution to the field of Groucho studies by attempting to tell the story of his life in terms of his work, and vice versa.. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The author uncovers the roots of the performer’s outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in Groucho’s early upbringing and Marx family dynamics
“A beautiful, brilliant, and persuasive reading of Marx as crypto-nihilist. A necessary and pulse-quickening work (utterly bereft of jargon or self-seriousness), linking Aristophanes to Kafka to Beckett to Groucho to Woody Allen to Amy Schumer.”—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
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