Ring Lardner has always fascinated me: He was a famous newspaper columnist in the 20’s and 30’s doing sharp, insightful and often satirical pieces on sports and entertainment that were lauded by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. This is writing to amuse not shake the rafters.more Lardner does a good job of capturing these accents and expression but he is not Runyon's equal in creating a comic community. In the tradition of Mark Twain and Damon Runyon his characters speak the less than perfect English of their time and class. This book is not roll on the floor funny. Mostly the aforesaid are a gyp but he is good humored and knows just how far he can tweak noses. It is through his gently jaundiced eyes that we get a running commentary on all things, fashionable, and expensive. Of course they get misdirected on the best deals for apartments and the usual misdirections, and the sister has a tendency to prefer the handsome, not well off for the well to do prospects, but her romances are only scenery for Brother-In_ Law to out scheme, out drink and out gamble the ladies. The story becomes something of the comedic misadventures of the three country mice in the big sorta bad big city. It is the wife's idea that they spend as much of this amount as needed to allow them to stay in New Your City long enough to land a well to do husband for sister Kate. The total sum is sufficient that they could live modestly on the proceeds. These are work a day people living in the then small town of South Bend Indiana. This is a short humorous piece about a husband, his wife and Sister-in -Law. go to New York to see life and get Katie a husband. Following her lead I turned to The Big Town - How I and the Mrs. In several places she is emphatic that Ring Lardner writes some of the best short stories. This is a collection of reviews and commentary on her times. Then I read Dorothy Parker's Constant Reader: 2. I had known there was an American writer named Ring Lardner but never focused on him as someone to read. go to New York to see life and get Katie a husband is entertaining and enough of a pleasure that I will be seeking out more Ring Lardner. This is a collection of reviews and commentary on her ti Bottom Line First: I wonder if we have come to expect humor to be rib grabbing when all it need to be is entertaining.
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Romanzo breve o piccola raccolta di racconti che sia, di certo Lardner sa raccontare con estrema leggerezza, non senza per questo risparmiare in spessore narrativo, tra battute scritte alla perfezione e scene al limite della parodia.īottom Line First: I wonder if we have come to expect humor to be rib grabbing when all it need to be is entertaining. Trasferitesi tutti assieme dall'Indiana alla ricerca dell'avventura e del prestigio sociale nella New York che contava all'epoca, si troveranno a fare i conti con tanti vizi, bugie e ben poche virtù (non solo altrui certo). È il caso de “La grande mela”, cinque episodi che narrano della parentesi newyorchese di Finch, un nullafacente, sua moglie, benestante di rendita, e la di lei sorella. Trasferitesi tutti assieme dall'I Commentatore sportivo e amico di Francis Scott Fitzgerald, con il quale condivise l'editor Maxwell Perkins, Ring Lardner ha scritto sempre e solo racconti, dal tono principalmente satirico o sarcastico, anche se spesso alcuni di questi riguardano lo stesso protagonista e si incatenano tra di loro. Commentatore sportivo e amico di Francis Scott Fitzgerald, con il quale condivise l'editor Maxwell Perkins, Ring Lardner ha scritto sempre e solo racconti, dal tono principalmente satirico o sarcastico, anche se spesso alcuni di questi riguardano lo stesso protagonista e si incatenano tra di loro.