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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
978-0394473482

Author
  
Woody Allen

Publisher
  
Random House

OCLC
  
244836

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Publication date
  
1971

Pages
  
151 pp.

Originally published
  
1971

Genre
  
Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Similar
  
Woody Allen books, Fiction books

Getting Even (1971) is Woody Allen's first collection of humorous stories, essays, and one short play. Most pieces were first published in The New Yorker between 1966 and 1971.

Contents

Contents

  1. The Metterling Lists
  2. A Look at Organized Crime
  3. The Schmeed Memoirs
  4. My Philosophy
  5. Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This?
  6. Death Knocks
  7. Spring Bulletin
  8. Hassidic Tales
  9. The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers
  10. Notes from the Overfed
  11. A Twenties Memory
  12. Count Dracula
  13. A Little Louder, Please
  14. Conversations with Helmholtz
  15. Viva Vargas!
  16. The Discovery and Use of the Fake Ink Blot
  17. Mr. Big

Some of the tales in detail

  • "Mr. Big" is a parody of the style and structure of hardboiled detective stories. The protagonist, Kaiser Lupowitz, is a parody of the characters which were typically played by Humphrey Bogart on film: Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. Kaiser smokes Lucky Strike like Sam Spade, and is also used by Allen in another hard boiled parody, The Whore of Mensa (1974), collected in Without Feathers (1975).
  • The philosophical arguments of "My Philosophy" will be later used in the films Bananas and Love and Death.
  • The play "Death Knocks" is a direct parody of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 The Seventh Seal.
  • "The Schmeed Memoirs" heavily parodies Felix Kersten.

    • References

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