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Groucho Marx führte ein unkonventionelles Leben und verfasste gleich zwei Autobiografien, die in diesem Band erstmals zusammengefasst sind. Er räumt mit gängigen Vorurteilen auf, etwa der Behauptung, er sei in einer Blockhütte geboren worden. Tatsächlich kam er als Sohn eines elsässischen Vaters und einer ostfriesischen Mutter in einem New Yorker Deutschenviertel zur Welt. In seinen Erinnerungen gibt er freizügig Auskunft über seinen Werdegang und legt großen Wert auf die Unterhaltung seiner Leser, während die chronologische Ordnung für ihn weniger bedeutend ist. Trotz seiner Eskapaden zeigt er sich selbstkritisch und hat eine klare Haltung: „Ich möchte keinem Club angehören, der mich als Mitglied akzeptiert“ und „Ich habe eiserne Prinzipien – und wenn sie Ihnen nicht gefallen, habe ich auch noch andere.“ Zudem äußert er tiefgründige Gedanken zur Geschlechterfrage: „Ein Mann ist so alt wie die Frau, die er fühlt.“ In Bezug auf Frauen war Groucho dreimal verheiratet und dreimal geschieden, was ihn zu dem Schluss brachte: „Die Ehe ist eine wunderbare Institution, aber wer möchte schon in einer Institution leben?“

Barcelona. 22 cm. 334 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Marx, Groucho 1891-1977. Traducción, Jos Oliver. Hoy libro. Traducción The Groucho letters. "Anagrama". Correspondencia .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8493455741

For everyone who still can't get enough of this legendary wit (and excellent writer), here is an extraordinary collection of almost two hundred letters by Groucho Marx. Following a close filial relationship as it unfolds week by week, year by year, these letters move through three decades of from the vagaries of Groucho's career in film, radio, and television, through two divorces and two remarriages, to Miriam's own often tumultuous young adulthood. In his own inimitable fashion, Groucho advises his daughter about her schoolwork, writing, career, growing up, and growing old. He also discusses theater, film, books, and politics with a candor that will surprise and delight even his most knowledgeable fans. Accompanied by photographs from Miriam's personal albums, Love, Groucho reveals a man deeply concerned with his family, a sometimes firm, always loving father who never hesitated to say exactly what he thought.

Questo libro propone un repertorio torrenziale di battute, calembours, freddure, giochi di parole e irresistibili situazioni comiche, create dal piú popolare dei fratelli Marx, Groucho. C'è chi ha affermato che Groucho è l'uomo piú divertente che sia mai esistito; lo conferma questa antologia, costruita con le parole del comico americano tratte da sceneggiature cinematografiche, da articoli pubblicati sul «New Yorker» e su altri periodici prestigiosi, dai travolgenti e surreali dialoghi del suo show televisivo You Bet Your Life . Non manca una scelta di lettere: l'esilarante corrispondenza con l'ufficio legale della Warner Bros. che accusava i Marx di plagio, l'amicizia epistolare con Th. S. Eliot, sfociata in un memorabile incontro a Londra, la vena umoristica che Groucho sapeva suscitare anche in chi gli scriveva...

In Memoirs of a Mangy Lover Groucho turns his manic eyebrows and spirited cigar to the ever-perplexing affairs of the heart while fully addressing the Marxian passion for poker. This wacky, eclectic book includes Groucho's improbable tales of true romance; his irreverent observations on talent, luck, and what this country really needs; the battles with pigeons and hotel detectives; an account of a blind date who knew a comedy when she saw it (even if it was Death of a Salesman); the "reason" for Harpo's silence; Groucho's unnatural history of love, which traces its unruly evolution from amoeba to alimony; his view on polygamy (and how to attain it); the stunning parallels between Groucho and Lawrence of Arabia; and, of course, plenty of blondes, brunettes, and redheads. So why buy a duck, when instead you can own the Memoirs of a Mangy Lover?

This is the controversial, "scandalous", beguiling, and absolutely authentic memoir of the most famous foursome in movie history, recounted by none other than the masterhimself. Here's Groucho , telling it like it was in a serie sof uncensored interviews salted with hair-raising quips and opinions on everthing from family skeletons to Marilyn Monroe's sex life. Film historian Richard J. Anobile's interviews with Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo, with Susan Marx, Jack Benny, Harry Ruby, Morrie Ryskind, and others who knew and worked with the fabled four along with 300splendid illustrations and memorabilia combine to bring you-for the first time-the one, the only, the real Marx Bros. -copied from back cover

No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot (”I had no idea you were so handsome!”); advising his son on courting a rich dame (”Don't come out bluntly and say, 'How much dough have you got?' That wouldn't be the Marxian way”); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club (”I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member”); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce (”There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegans Wake . I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was”); responding to a scandal sheet (” If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription”); describing himself to the Lunts (”I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there”); and much, much more. That mobile visage, that look of wild amazement, and that weaving cigar are wholly captured, bound but untamed, in The Groucho Letters.

Fundidos en uno solo, Groucho y su yo escribieron este libro… indescriptible. Y es que aunque uno y otro sean de naturaleza muy similar, también son, paradójicamente, muy distintos. En tanto que Groucho, insumiso, entrometido, criticón e insolente mujeriego, dinamita la sociedad y siembra el desconcierto, el yo-de-Groucho sólo piensa en enriquecerse y medrar en esa misma sociedad. Pero lo cierto es que los dos gozan por igual del don privilegiado de hacernos morir de risa. Las hilarantes memorias de uno de los cómicos más famosos de todos los tiempos.