- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Prion Books Ltd; New edition edition (9 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1853754153
- ISBN-13: 978-1853754159
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.3 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 469,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The tales that make up "Seven Men and Two Others" start out as a set of "faux" memoirs set amid London literary life in the precious fin de siecle era and proceed into deliciously absurd fantasy. With a sense of fun, a hint of nostalgia, razor-sharp satire, and pitch-perfect parody, Beerbohm tugs at the affected nature of the whole literary scene--lamentable authors, wily agents, and preposterous weekend salons.
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
(1000 words ? I shan't be that long. Besides, my english is horrible) That Max Beerbohm's Seven Men (and Two others) should dwell again on the shelves of mainstream booksellers (you had to look for it in secondhand bookshops after the exhaustion of the Oxford University Press edition, I guess) is good news in this rather horribilis year. It is perverse and witty, it is sweet and chilly - it plays quite gently and deadly with pride, vanity, silly dreams, lies and literary hopes. A book for specialists or writers ? Not at all. Beerbohm's eye for the sorry, the sad, the ridicule and the wicked should appeal to everyone.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A very charming book
21 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
I first read "Seven Men" a few years back when Harold Bloom listed it as essential reading in his book on the Western canon.
The book consists of short fictional portraits of various characters in the world of Edwardian arts and letters. Beerbohm was a satirist with a nimble touch -- he had the ability to poke fun at the pretensions of the art world while maintaining a gentle, bemused humanism.
Sir Max seemed to view the vanity and foibles of human nature not so much with scorn as with an endless amusement, and reading any of his essays or parodies or satires is like spending the evening chatting with a wise and witty friend.
Beerbohm once wrote, "How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls." Beerbohm was an admitted juggler, and yet his seemingly "light" work is ultimately more insightful than most so-called serious projects. And often much funnier.
Beerbohm was also quite a caricaturist, and his theater reviews (many out of print) are still great to read all these decades later.
Get hold of this book and start off with the classics "Enoch Soames," the story of a third-rate poet who, convinced of his own greatness, makes a deal with the Devil in order to travel to the future to enjoy his posthumous success (with comic results), and "Savonarola Brown," a hilarious sketch of a frustrated playwright and his great "unfinished" opus.
Beerbohm's contemporaries referred to him as "the incomparable Max," and it's a title that fits. I wish I could've met him.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Gentle humor blended with worldly wisdom: superb.
13 Aug 1999
Format:Paperback
These fictitious biographical sketches are superb blends of gentle humor with worldly wisdom. This is one of the finest books of the twentieth century and maybe one of the finest books ever written. If you can, try to get the hardcover Oxford World's Classics edition, which reproduces the pencil sketches that Beerbohm (who was a highly talented caricaturist as well as a fine writer) made of five of the "seven men." The sketches add yet another layer of meaning and resonance to what is already a marvelous book that easily bears any number of rereadings.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A fun survey of literary circle evolution
23 May 2001
Format:Hardcover
The essay/sketches which are presented in Seven Men And Two Others begin as the author's memories of London literary life at the turn of the century and move into satire and parody as Beerbohm comments on authors, critics and literary circles alike. Seven Men And Two Others is a revealing achievement and a fun survey of literary circle evolution.
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