The Unfinished Harauld Hughes - Richard Ayoade

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

Richard Ayoade's hilarious fictional quest to rescue a practically mythical mid-century playwright from obscurity

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2024 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-37789-3 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
"So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap." - Stephen Merchant
"Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant." - Tim Key
"Absolutely miraculous." - Jesse Eisenberg
"A brain-swirlingly funny quest." - Robert Popper

Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.

The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published.

Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film O Bedlam! O Bedlam!, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War.

This is the story of the story of that quest.

RICHARD AYOADE is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.11.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-571-37789-0 / 0571377890
ISBN-13 978-0-571-37789-3 / 9780571377893
Zustand Neuware
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