Getting Even (Allen book)

	Hardcover edition
Author	Woody Allen
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1971
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	151 pp.
ISBN	978-0394473482
OCLC	244836
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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.

The Metterling Lists^[1]
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,^[2] Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer^[3]^[4] and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.^[5] 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.^[6]
The play "Death Knocks" is a direct parody of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 The Seventh Seal.^[7]
"The Schmeed Memoirs" heavily parodies Felix Kersten.

Notes and references

^ The Metterling Lists in The New Yorker, May 10, 1969
^ Vittorio Hösle (2007) Woody Allen: an essay on the nature of the comical p.70
^ Guido Almansi and Guido Fink (1976) Quasi come, p.197
^ Philological papers, Volume 29 p.110
^ Franco Contorbia (2009) Giornalismo italiano, Volume 4, p.222, quotation: "In Mr Big Allen scrive una perfetta novella poliziesca, genere hard boiled, tra Dashiell Hammett, Spillane e Chandler."
^ "The Author". Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
^ Richard Alan Schwartz (2000) Woody, from Antz to Zelig: a reference guide to Woody Allen's creative work, 1964-1998 p.38

External links

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

[1] The Metterling Lists in The New Yorker, May 10, 1969

[2] Vittorio Hösle (2007) Woody Allen: an essay on the nature of the comical p.70

[3] Guido Almansi and Guido Fink (1976) Quasi come, p.197

[4] Philological papers, Volume 29 p.110

[5] Franco Contorbia (2009) Giornalismo italiano, Volume 4, p.222, quotation: "In Mr Big Allen scrive una perfetta novella poliziesca, genere hard boiled, tra Dashiell Hammett, Spillane e Chandler."

[6] "The Author". Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2011.

[7] Richard Alan Schwartz (2000) Woody, from Antz to Zelig: a reference guide to Woody Allen's creative work, 1964-1998 p.38

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