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Howard Jacobson: Return of the Wry

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Partner:: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Location:: Sydney Writers Festival
Sydney, Australia
Event Date:: 06.21.11
Speakers:: Fiona Giles,; Howard Jacobson
Tags:: novel; humor; comedy; judaism; israel; the finkler question; man booker prize

Summary: Howard Jacobson calls himself a "Jewish Jane Austen," as opposed to his critics' description as the "English Phillip Roth." Suffice to say, he's a funny guy. He's also the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize with his comic novel, The Finkler Question. His unexpected win would seem to put paid to the idea that comedy has disappeared from the novel. At a Sydney Writers Festival session called The Return of the Wry, Jacobson tells media lecturer Fiona Giles why, more than ever, there's a big need for funny. In it, he points out that, in the time of Ancient Greece, was the direct opposite of tragedy in that it was focused on the basics of life, such as sex and bodily functions. These days, he says, there should be nowhere that comedy doesn't dare to go, including the hardest and darkest things of life. Jacobson confesses why he's suspicious of Shakespeare's Shylock, unanimity, ideologues and atheists ... but also why he quite likes Joyce's Jewish hero in Ulysses, and the aristocratic baby and talking dog of the TV show "Family Guy."

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Fiona Giles

Fiona Giles is a senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Her publications include journalism, edited collections and academic work on gender and the body, particularly female sexuality. Her book, Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, was published in 2003.

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson is a British author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. His 1999 novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. In October 2010 Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.

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01.: Where Did the Comedy Novel Go?

04 min 37 sec

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02.: Comedy Being Taken Seriously

03 min 31 sec

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03.: Does Comedy Defy Death?

05 min 31 sec

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04.: How Comedy Achieves Change?

04 min 33 sec

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05.: Comedy on Television

03 min 23 sec

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06.: 'Laughter Is a Pledge of At-homeness in the World'

06 min 09 sec

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07.: 'Kalooki Nights' Excerpt

04 min 49 sec

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08.: Writing About the Penis and Being Jewish

03 min 43 sec

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09.: Q1: Boundaries for Comedy?

01 min 14 sec

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10.: Q2: What Do You Do When Not Writing?

00 min 40 sec

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11.: Q3: Exclusion and Being Jewish?

05 min 50 sec

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12.: Q4: Married In or Out?

01 min 06 sec

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13.: Q5: What Jews Represent in the West?

04 min 20 sec

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14.: Q6: Depictions of Jews in Literature?

02 min 34 sec

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Howard Jacobson: The Importance of Comedy, Filth and Sex

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The Finkler Question
The Mighty Walzer: A Novel
Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts

Encyclopædia Britannica Article

comedy: Genre of dramatic literature that deals with the light and amusing or with the serious and profound in a light, familiar, or satirical manner. Comedy can be traced to revels associated with worship in Greece in the 5th century BC. Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, and Plautus produced comedies in classical literature. It reappeared in the late Middle Ages, when the term was used to mean simply a story with a happy ending (e.g., Dante's Divine Comedy), the same meaning it has in novels of the last three centuries (e.g., the fiction of Jane Austen). Compare tragedy.; comedy on britannica.com

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