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O Mundo de SJ Perelman
S. J. Perelman escreveu os textos reunidos nesta colectânea entre as décadas de 1930 e 1970. Na sua maioria, foram publicados pela primeira vez na revista The New Yorker; alguns dos textos surgiram nas revistas College Humour, Judge, Life, Contact, Stage e Holiday.
349 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
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S.J. Perelman
104 books99 followersSidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman, was a Jewish-American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.
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January 16, 2019
Perelman. What a writer. This is the third book of his that I have read. All three books are filled with short stories, many of them published previously in the New Yorker and the NY Times and elsewhere. Unfortunately, his gloriously funny books are fading away, like a knish. Like the telephone booth, the Yellow Pages, good Chinese restaurants, cuff links, typewriters, land lines and Roger Daltry’s golden locks.
The most annoying obstacle to reading him is that it is terribly difficult to look up definitions in his prose, all the time, while your eyes are so moist from laughing. You cannot see, you are bent over from excessive hysteria, you have not visited the restroom in four hours, the laundry machine is overflowing with suds, you do not answer your calls, you forgot to eat the half-sour pickles you bought last month for nourishment, there is a fire down the hall that you ignore, because you must get to the next sentence, chapter, page. I blame Perelman for this, he is a bad man, a co-conspirator with Mephistopheles.
His writing is highly addictive, so for those who are prone to substance abuse, mall shopping, Tums, or Pistachio nuts, you should not read it. There are plenty of other genres available, as we all know.
There are many safe ways to get through your free days. You can iron clothes or jog around in your new invisible quarter high socks or cook naan or play mah-jongg or argue about candidates, or engage in a debate on Pepin’s cooking techniques.
But if you have never met this man, be careful. He kills, recklessly, and in the world of comic writers, this is the apogee of compliments.
Lox vobiscum, and give my regards to Broadway.
The most annoying obstacle to reading him is that it is terribly difficult to look up definitions in his prose, all the time, while your eyes are so moist from laughing. You cannot see, you are bent over from excessive hysteria, you have not visited the restroom in four hours, the laundry machine is overflowing with suds, you do not answer your calls, you forgot to eat the half-sour pickles you bought last month for nourishment, there is a fire down the hall that you ignore, because you must get to the next sentence, chapter, page. I blame Perelman for this, he is a bad man, a co-conspirator with Mephistopheles.
His writing is highly addictive, so for those who are prone to substance abuse, mall shopping, Tums, or Pistachio nuts, you should not read it. There are plenty of other genres available, as we all know.
There are many safe ways to get through your free days. You can iron clothes or jog around in your new invisible quarter high socks or cook naan or play mah-jongg or argue about candidates, or engage in a debate on Pepin’s cooking techniques.
But if you have never met this man, be careful. He kills, recklessly, and in the world of comic writers, this is the apogee of compliments.
Lox vobiscum, and give my regards to Broadway.
September 21, 2009
Having erudite narrative skill & being able to express yourself well is a great advantage in being a writer, but that aint funny--funny is funny. S.J. should have stuck to screenwriting (he wrote Monkey Business & Horse Feathers for the Marx Brothers) where he was funny....
November 19, 2017
Perelman's prose is mirthful and completely confident.
Whether writing about the Broadway fiasco Cherry Flip, or the sorrows and miseries of getting a barn painted, he is in command and delighted to recount something to delight the reader.
Whether writing about the Broadway fiasco Cherry Flip, or the sorrows and miseries of getting a barn painted, he is in command and delighted to recount something to delight the reader.
August 29, 2024
Bastante engraçado, especialmente pela mudança repentina de cenários/personagens/situações a meio de cada texto e o insólito de grande parte destas. Nota também para a inocência do narrador em algumas das situações, onde o leitor vê claramente o que está à sua frente e o narrador faz-se inocentemente de desentendido, dando uma outra interpretação.
Pena ter algumas piadas muito específicas, que para serem percebidas e engraçadas, é necessário conhecer o contexto sociocultural dos EUA de 1900 e tal.
Ainda assim, é claramente uma boa leitura e que certamente provocará fortes gargalhadas!
Pena ter algumas piadas muito específicas, que para serem percebidas e engraçadas, é necessário conhecer o contexto sociocultural dos EUA de 1900 e tal.
Ainda assim, é claramente uma boa leitura e que certamente provocará fortes gargalhadas!
May 19, 2020
Quintessential New York fare. I found myself laughing out loud. Every word is not a gem but enough of them are for this to be among my favorite American letters.
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March 31, 2024Perelman was by most accounts a miserable prick - but my god was the man funny.
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