James Finn Garner est un écrivain et satiriste américain, célèbre pour ses commentaires vifs et humoristiques sur les courants sociaux et politiques. Son œuvre est reconnue pour son esprit vif et sa capacité à exposer les absurdités des attitudes contemporaines à travers des récits familiers réinterprétés avec ironie et humour. Garner explore des thèmes qui soulignent le conflit entre tradition et idées progressistes, visant souvent à susciter la réflexion sur les normes sociales et le langage que nous utilisons pour les définir. Son approche satirique offre une perspective rafraîchissante et provocatrice sur le monde.
Nouveaux contes d'autrefois pour lecteurs d'aujourd'hui
Des contes célèbres (Hansel et Gretel, Le Chat botté...) expurgés des notions sexistes, racistes, âgistes, culturalistes, et aménagés façon XXe siècle. L'auteur y dénonce avec humour les travers en tous genres et les excès de la société moderne.
Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in over-stuffed leather chairs, smoke air-choking cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness, reflected the way in which these men lived and saw their world: that is, the stories were sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere. Finally, after centuries of these abusive tales, which have been handed down--unknowingly--from one male-biased generation to the next, James Finn Garner has taken it upon himself (that's right, yet another man) to enlighten and liberate these classic bedtime stories and retell them in a way that is much more in keeping with the society in which we live today. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, then is the fruit of Garner's labors. We'd like to think that future generations of fairy-tale fans will see this as a worthy attempt to develop meaningful literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past. --front flap
The author of the multi-million-copy bestselling Politcally Correct books now turns his jaundiced eye to the eschatalogical--and generates big yucks at what he sees. Lampooning everything from Mad Max to the Rapture to 666, the Number of the Beast, James Finn Garner launches an assault on UFO conspiracies, numerological calculations of the last days, harmonic convergences, and other millennial prophecies.
A collection of Christmas stories, retold for readers of evolved consciousness, liberated from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist and other environmentally unsound prejudices.
The Ultimate Storybook
James Finn Garner wowed the world when he wrote Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, which sold nearly 2 million copies, and then followed it up with two books with the same theme, Politically Correct Holiday Stories and Once Upon An Enlightened Time; the three books together sold nearly 3.5 million copies in the U.S. and were translated into 20 languages. Garner's incisive and hilarious books took age-old bedtime and holiday stories and made them into politically correct tales of our day. His original humor, filled with social commentary, is well-known by readers around the country -- most recently in his new book Apocalypse Wow!
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
