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Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father (1960)

by Roy Lewis

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"The Evolution Man is a novel about your basic upwardly mobile Pleistocene cave family - as they come down from trees (except for Uncle Vanya, who insists that it's the stupidest thing man ever did), dislodge a family of bears from the best cave in the neighborhood, and widen their digestive horizons to keep down things not only disgusting but disagreeable as well. Life cannot be all snails and sweetbreads." "Recorded here is the correct version of the invention of fire, the first intellectual argument about shadows, and an eye-witness account of the first human courtship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)
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Per carità: carino e a tratti divertente. Ma mai più di un timido sorriso, eh.
Forse perché troppo sfacciatamente a tesi, senza avere la forza e la bellezza dei bei libri sfacciatamente a tesi (vedi il miglior Shaw).

Insomma, assolutamente perdibile. ( )
  kenshin79 | Jul 25, 2023 |
Libro molto divertente basato su un semplice stratagemma: rileggere le (ipotetiche) gesta di un uomo di Neandertal attraverso la sensibilità e il lessico di un uomo contemporaneo. Con al centro una più che mai controversa scoperta del fuoco, le gesta ironiche e spesso crudeli di una orda di nostri progenitori. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
ok, di tutto ciò che mi aspettavo da questo libro, ho ottenuto solo una parte: pensavo di spanciarmi dalle risate, invece ho sorriso a denti stretti, pensavo di trovare tanta rovente satira sulla società moderna attraverso un racconto che parlava di cavernicoli, invece ne ho trovato solo una parte diluita nella smania dell'autore di essere scientificamente accurato. Insomma, leggere di cavernicoli che affrontano i loro problemi con la consapevolezza di uomini moderni è abbastanza spassoso, ma non così spassoso come mi sarei aspettato. Inoltre ho storto il naso per un'altra cosa: questo libro è la fiera della misoginia e del maschilismo, le donne, dove non sono stupide e capaci solo di cucinare, sono manipolatrici e arriviste (le solite accuse che si fanno alle donne) e il concetto è un po' troppo insistito per non far sorgere il sospetto che non si tratti solo di comicità...mah!
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  JoeProtagoras | Jan 28, 2021 |
Very satisfying, loved the blend of Pleistocene and modern sensibilities, the humour was just right for me. I grew up in the 60s and I have no idea how I managed to miss hearing about this book until lent it by friend this month. I notice most of the reviews on this site are in various other languages although the book is available in english, and it does appear on the neglected books website so as this was so good I shall explore what else is suggested there. ( )
  Ma_Washigeri | Jan 23, 2021 |
Veramente simpatico e divertente ( )
  Edoxide | Apr 6, 2016 |
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When the winds blew strongly from the North, bringing an icy reminder that the great ice-cap was still advancing, we used to pile all our stores of brushwood and broken trees in front of the cave, make a really roaring fire, and tell ourselves that however far south it came this time, even in Africa, we could meet it and beat it.
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"The Evolution Man is a novel about your basic upwardly mobile Pleistocene cave family - as they come down from trees (except for Uncle Vanya, who insists that it's the stupidest thing man ever did), dislodge a family of bears from the best cave in the neighborhood, and widen their digestive horizons to keep down things not only disgusting but disagreeable as well. Life cannot be all snails and sweetbreads." "Recorded here is the correct version of the invention of fire, the first intellectual argument about shadows, and an eye-witness account of the first human courtship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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