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Bezig met laden... Puckoon (1963)door Spike Milligan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Amazing book... random walkings / adventures of a layabout in Ireland ... ( ) 4.5/5 Extraordinary book, exquisite wordplay which generates laughing-out-loud fun. I'll come back to this after getting acquainted with the history of Ireland. Tenth chapter had a haphazard heap full of elements and characters and it felt like a jumbled up porridge of sentences. But rest all chapters were too awesome. Must read. Truly bizarre, and yet truly Milligan-esque. The basic gist of the story is that a certain Irish village is split in two by a boundary commission, with the line going through the local Catholic church's graveyard. Hijinks ensue, with a cast of (mostly) Irish idiots. One has to quantify it as mostly, since there's a Chinese garda on the loose. If you love Milligan's stuff, you'll love this; if not, it's likely you won't. That includes the fourth-wall breaking and the various illustrations, along with ethnic humour and a hefty load of bawdy jokes. I, personally, liked it, but then, I'm a Goon Show fan. Inspired silliness permeates this farcical novel. The story, which improbably enough, centers on the ongoing battle between the British and the IRA is really nothing more than a hook from which to hang a series of unlikely comedy sketches, sometimes surrealist in their lack of logic. Very funny indeed, it holds up remarkably well. American readers will undoubtedly miss some jokes to do cultural differences and lack of the historical background. Spike at his anarchic best. Painfully funny. Towards the beginning of the book the Dan Milligan character is walking down a road when he stops to consider his legs. He interrupts the narrative and demands to know who wrote his legs. Spike is compelled to confess it was him. Dan then complains bitterly about the scrawny legs he's been stuck with all his life and an argument ensues - one voice coming out of the book and one going in. It's the literary theory debate about the author/character/reader dynamic but much, much funnier. Sheer genius. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963. 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . . 'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' Observer 'Our first comic philosopher' Eddie Izzard Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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