• Source: Getting Even (Allen book)

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


The Metterling Lists
A Look at Organized Crime
The Schmeed Memoirs
My Philosophy
Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This?
Death Knocks
Spring Bulletin
Hassidic Tales
The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers
Notes from the Overfed
A Twenties Memory
Count Dracula
A Little Louder, Please
Conversations with Helmholtz
Viva Vargas!
The Discovery and Use of the Fake Ink Blot
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.




Notes and references






External links


Woody Allen's bibliography Archived 2016-04-03 at the Wayback Machine

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