by Robert Benchley · Rivages · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782743616687
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«Démence précoce» is a collection of humorous essays and stories by Robert Benchley, published by Rivages in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Collects humorous articles in which Benchley mocks the absurdity of everyday life: going mad in a minute, the symptoms of dementia praecox, or telling one's dreams to others. Includes eight zany adventures with his secretary M. Mac-Gregor, who fight the evil eye, lose a locomotive, and raise frogs.
Published in 2007. Translated by Frédéric Brument. Robert Benchley (1889-1945) was a humorous columnist and published in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
For readers with a taste for absurd humor and satire, as well as for twentieth-century American humorous journalism.
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers at the Algonquin Round Table in New York City to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
