Groucho Marx : the comedy of existence
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/MARX,G
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Details
PUBLISHED
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015
©2015
DESCRIPTION
viii, 162 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0300174454, 9780300174458
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: a fateful condition -- Nothing will come of nothing -- Human, all too human -- Fathers and sons -- Groucho and me: a match made in heaven -- Interlude: words -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- Groucho the Jewish aristocrat -- Groucho the Jewish outsider-philosopher -- Epilogue: gone today, here tomorrow
The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description