The film director Woody Allen will publish his first novel, entitled What about Baum?on September 25 of this year in Spain. The story, published in Spanish by Editorial Alliance, is full of “hilarious and absurd moments” and tells the life of a medium -sized Jewish journalist, turned into a novelist and “ridiculously paralyzed by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of existence”, according to the description of the editorial.
It is not the first book that Allen publishes. In fact, he began to do so in the 1970s and since then he has published compilations of stories, some of his most successful scripts and controversial memories, called About anythingin 2022. In them he dedicated a good part of the text to defend his innocence in the face of the accusation of his adopted daughter Dylan and his ex -wife, Mia Farrow, having abused the then seven -year -old girl in the house in Connecticut of the actress. Hachette, the original publishing house of that text in the United States, left the project after a staff strike against its publication, so it was finally launched in Arcade.
In the novel argument, the controversy also whips, although otherwise, the protagonist. The third marriage of the writer Asher Baum is “in crisis.” “In a moment of irrationality, he impulsively tried to kiss a young and beautiful journalist during an interview,” he reads in the description of the book in his US publishing house, Simon & Schuster. In addition, the man “suspects that his handsome and successful younger brother could have seduced his wife. He is uncomfortable by the close relationship she has with her son, a more successful writer than him, and suspects his proximity to his neighbor of Connecticut.”
Editorial Alliance complements the description like this: “What about Baum? It recreates with an irreverent humor the New York cultural scene, the miseries of family life, the decline of love in couples, the fatal destiny of those who without too many gifts feel called to glory … ”. All that makes the book, 216 pages, in“ Woody Allen in its purest form ”.
The cover of the book parodia the famous picture The cryby Edvard Munch, since the figure with which the Norwegian artist represented existential anguish walking through New York is seen.
The American filmmaker premiered his last film in 2023, Lucky blowthe 50th film of its prolific career. Wish 1982 and until 2019, the director premiered at least one annual film – only 2002 was the exception. However, after the scandal, and also fruit of his age, his vertiginous rhythm decreased. In 2023 he declared Variety: “I have so many ideas for movies that I would tempt me if it was easy to finance them. But I don’t know if I have the same desire to spend so much time raising funds.”