Perhaps to break with topical confinement, in English literature we find great narrators of humorous literature that crosses many genres with a taste for the cartoonish, the parodic and even the satirical.
With its notable thematic and stylistic differences, Wodehouse is not far behind Tom sharpe. It is more likely that the first served as inspiration for the second. As surely also happened in the case of a Edmund crispin capable of black humor between its noir plots. A school of humorous narrative that, as I say, finds in the Anglo overtones of delirious mockery towards that necessary laughter around reality. A slutty review of the most classy scenarios where everything blows up.
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Today Richard Osman It could be the author where this current is focused, not so explicit but evident. The question here and now is to recover Wodehouse to start tracing a family tree of British humor. As efficient as on par, capable of rounding everything off with suggestive plots.
There are strange days and nothing better than letting ourselves be carried away by the best humor, the one that is narrated to us between magnificent plots. Because if Wodehouse was able to humorously overcome his particular experiences in the midst of World War II, he can serve us perfectly as an example.
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The inimitable Jeeves
Wodehouse broke with this story for humor. And thanks to her, of course. With Jeeves, a recurring protagonist of Wodehouse appears in our lives who can never stop surprising us.
When Bertie Wooster spends a few days with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and suddenly finds himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, the threat of disaster hangs over everyone and everything. And while Florence is dedicated to nurturing Bertie's spirit, her former boyfriend, burly ex-cop "Stilton" Cheesewright, threatens to reduce her body to mush and Florence's new admirer, whiny poet Percy Gorringe, tries to sable her. thousand pounds.
To top it off, Bertie has incurred Jeeves's disapproval by growing a mustache. Add to this a missing pearl necklace, Aunt Dahlia's magazine Milady's Boudoir, her cook Anatole, the Drone Club darts championship, Mr LG Trotter and wife from Liverpool, and you have all the makings of a hilarious Wodehouse novel.
full moon
The full moon shines on the battlements and towers of Blandings Castle, stirring the hearts of some of the Earl of Emsworth's guests. Among them are Colonel Wedge and his pretty daughter Veronica; Tipton Plimsoll, the young American millionaire and, of course, Freddie, the earl's young son who, as always, deeply irritates his father. There is also Prudence, a niece who is not allowed by her uptight family to marry her suitor, Bill Lister.
Among Colonel Wedge's plans, the most immediate is to get his daughter Veronica and the young American millionaire to fall in love and get married. Of course, for this the colonel will have to display all his ingenuity, since the beauty of his daughter contrasts with her lack of intelligence. And so, between youthful intrigues and parental plans, Blandings' house soon becomes a true convention of broken hearts, where they are fighting each other. And that is when Glahad, brother of the count, will intervene, a great fan of undoing his own and others' wrongs, and who always, always manages to complicate everything to extremes that only PG Wodehouse, the king of laughter, could imagine.
morning glee
When one becomes aware upon waking up that a great day is ahead, one must bear in mind that putting the right foot on the ground in the first place can end up determining the correct trigger of the event or the most noisy scandal.
It all started one beautiful morning, when Bertie Wooster, blinded by the joy of the good weather, agreed to spend a few days away from the madding crowd at Steeple Bumpleigh. He did not know the very urban Bertie who was at the gates of one of the most stormy times of his life.
Because in Aunt Agatha's residence, who was fortunately absent, there were nothing more and nothing less than Florrie, an old girlfriend of Bertie's; Stilton Cheesewright, the current boyfriend who, of course, hated the old one, that is, Bertie; Lord Worplesdon, who hated him even more, and Edwin; the young explorer son of the lord, of whom the most praise that could be said was that he was an offense to the landscape. Luckily, to neutralize such bad vibes, the friendly Zenobia Hopwood and Boko Fittleworth were also there. And the ineffable Jeeves, the model butler capable of turning a possible catastrophe into a most exhilarating mess.
