Name: Seven Men
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Author: Max Beerbohm
ISBN: 9781554809875

Seven Men

By Max Beerbohm 13 Mar, 2019

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Seven Men is a collection of five short stories written by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in Britain in 1919 by Heinemann. It contains Beerbohm's persuasive biographies of six characters from the fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s. Interacting with them, Beerbohm himself is the seventh man. As a leading member of the literary life of that past time, he writes “with such circumstantial detail and such gentle realism” that readers are lulled almost into accepting the fantastic events that he describes. Four of the five stories in the collection had previously appeared in The Century Magazine: “James Pethel” in January 1915, “Enoch Soames” in May 2016, “A. V. Laider” in June 1916, “Hilary Maltby” (under that title) in February 1919. The story that was added to the enlarged edition of 1950 had originally appeared as “Not that I would boast” in the London Mercury in May 1927. The growing popularity of the collection, already described as “a little masterpiece” by Virginia Woolf, was endorsed by the same judgment being repeated in a recent Encyclopædia Britannica. Martin Maner has commented of Seven Men and Two Others that in it Beerbohm anticipated postmodernism and specifically that it is “a postmodernist fiction written before its time” in such features as “its narrative self-consciousness” and “its blurring of the boundary lines between fact and fiction”, its use of parody and Beerbohm's insistence that the book's format "should be of a kind suitable to a book of essays". Less

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