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Saddest Summer Of Samuel S
Сборник представляет разные грани творчества знаменитого "черного юмориста". Американец ирландского происхождения, Данливи прославился в равной степени откровенностью интимного содержания и проникновенностью, психологической достоверностью даже самых экзотических ситуаций и персоналий. Это вакханалия юмора, подчас черного, эроса, подчас шокирующего, остроумия, подчас феери...more
128 pages
Published
by Penguin Putnam~trade
(first published 1966)
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Stream of consciousness from Samuel S who is mentally unsound in sixties Vienna. An old woman from the old world bribes him to marry her but won't shag him; a young woman from the new world refuses to marry him but will shag him. The dilemma is: "That if ever I'm cured I will never know it."
"one grows old faster staying in the same place."
"'And that collar doesn't match your shirt, which is sort of an English affectation but is really what a crummy English civil servant would wear.'
'You know wha...more
"one grows old faster staying in the same place."
"'And that collar doesn't match your shirt, which is sort of an English affectation but is really what a crummy English civil servant would wear.'
'You know wha...more
Dec 31, 2011
Alex Sarll
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For all his melancholy, what I love about Donleavy is the vitality - both of his prose and his rackety protagonists. And in this slim tale, "the world's most august failure" is rather lacking in that respect - as in so many others.
A quick read, with all the Donleavy earmarks very much intact. This one is set in Vienna but otherwise is all too familiar. Still has its moments though.
Very easy and nice read with a simple story, worth a read when you haven't got enough time to concerntrate on a large and complex book.
For fans of JPD.
even his depressing books are funny.
Poor old Samuel S - don't understand why he kept on turning down the sex when it was on offer, although that girl did bite him quite hard by all accounts!
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James Patrick Donleavy is an Irish American author, born to Irish immigrants. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II after which he moved to Ireland. In 1946 he began studies at Trinity College, Dublin, but left before taking a degree. He was first published in the Dublin literary periodical, Envoy.
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