I Love You (italics mine)
Prayers sold on eBay auctions; a musical set after the Yellow Pages; anti-depressant, aromatic high-tech textiles; Max Endorphin’s levitations; trouble in Disneyland; the revenge gone wrong of a rich family against the nanny that is on the verge of publishing embarrassing facts about her employers and more, are all found in the last book of Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy
A collection of humorous 18 short-stories, Mere Anarchy
The book raises language difficulties even when it does use plain English. The twist of phrase and the use of terms that require a dictionary are accompanied by a great number of Yiddishisms, Frenchisms and German language insertions. Some others languages as well.
The absurd and the humor it engages don’t always cook for an easy digestion, but personally I am quite fond of the genre.
Max Endorphin (the names would make a good subject for a full article) levitates, but the narrator, quitting too early from the spiritual courses hasn’t acquired the full process procedure. Can’t stop levitating. To Err is Human – To Float, Divine
“I am greatly relived that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.”; so starts Strung Out, the paragraph where in the pre-purchasing process, Mere Anarchy randomly opened at.
“You’re fine, like rare wine. I love you (italics mine)” – Attention Geniuses – Cash Only
While The Herald Tribune “Even when it creaks, “Mere Anarchy” is nostalgically enjoyable, and most of it sounds timelessly bright.” and LA Times “Like so much in Allen’s unfailingly entertaining, mostly brilliant collections, the notion manages to be at once painful, surreal, obsessive and, lest we forget, seriously funny.” go for a tender approach of the collection, The Guardian goes as far as “Woody Allen should try this material out on a paying audience, to see if he can put it across. If he can, then he’s still a formidable performer, but he needs to hire a better writer.”
Mere Anarchy can be purchased here.
