Getting Even (Allen book)
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Author | Woody Allen |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1971 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 151 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0394473482 |
OCLC | 244836 |
Getting Even (1971) is Woody Allen's first collection of humorous stories, essays, and one short play. Most pieces were first published in The New Yorker between 1966 and 1971.
Contents
- The Metterling Lists[1]
- A Look at Organized Crime
- The Schmeed Memoirs
- My Philosophy
- Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This?
- Death Knocks
- Spring Bulletin
- Hassidic Tales
- The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers
- Notes from the Overfed
- A Twenties Memory
- Count Dracula
- A Little Louder, Please
- Conversations with Helmholtz
- Viva Vargas!
- The Discovery and Use of the Fake Ink Blot
- Mr. Big
Some of the tales in detail
- "Mr. Big" is a parody of the style and structure of hardboiled detective stories. The protagonist, Kaiser Lupowitz, is a parody of the characters which were typically played by Humphrey Bogart on film: Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon,[2] Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer[3][4] and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.[5] Kaiser smokes Lucky Strike like Sam Spade, and is also used by Allen in another hard boiled parody, The Whore of Mensa (1974), collected in Without Feathers (1975).
- The philosophical arguments of "My Philosophy" will be later used in the films Bananas and Love and Death.[6]
- The play "Death Knocks" is a direct parody of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 The Seventh Seal.[7]
- "The Schmeed Memoirs" heavily parodies Felix Kersten.
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