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2000 novel by Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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First edition cover
Author Michael Chabon
State The states
Linguistic communication English
Genre Historical fiction
Publisher Random Firm

Publication date

 September xix, 2000
Media blazon Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 639 pp
ISBN 0-679-45004-1
OCLC 234094822

Dewey Decimal

 813/.54 21
LC Grade PS3553.H15 A82 2000

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins, Czech artist Joe Kavalier and Brooklyn-born writer Sammy Clay, earlier, during, and after Globe State of war Ii. In the novel, Kavalier and Dirt become major figures in the comics manufacture from its nascency into its Gold Age. Kavalier & Clay was published to "virtually unanimous praise" and became a New York Times All-time Seller,[ane] receiving nominations for the 2000 National Volume Critics Circle Honor and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis alleged the novel "1 of the iii groovy books of my generation,"[2] and in 2007, The New York Review of Books called the novel Chabon's magnum opus.[three]

The novel's publication was followed past several companion projects, including 2 short stories published by Chabon that consist of material apparently written for the novel only not included: "The Return of the Amazing Cavalieri" in McSweeney's Quarterly Business concern (2001), and "Breakfast in the Wreck" in The Virginia Quarterly Review (2004). In 2004, a coda to the novel was published separately under the title "A Postscript", in Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Historic period of Comic Books, 1938–1950. From 2004 to 2006, Nighttime Horse Comics published two serial of Escapist comic books based on the superhero stories described in the novel, some of which were written by Chabon. Nighttime Horse Comics too published a comics-format "sequel" to the novel: The Escapists, written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Jason Shawn Alexander and Steve Rolston.

Plot summary [edit]

The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-former Josef "Joe" Kavalier every bit a refugee in New York City, where he comes to live with his 17-yr-sometime cousin, Sammy Klayman. With the help of his mentor, Kornblum, Joe escapes Nazi-occupied Prague by hiding in a coffin. Joe leaves behind the balance of his family, including his younger brother Thomas. As the novel develops, both Joe and Sammy observe their creative niches, one entrepreneurial, the other's creative. Beyond having a shared interest in drawing, the duo share several connections to Jewish phase magician Harry Houdini: Josef (like comics legend Jim Steranko) studied magic and escapology in Prague, which aided him in his difference from Europe; Sammy is the son of the Mighty Molecule, a strongman on the vaudeville circuit.

When Sammy discovers Joe'southward artistic talent, he gets Joe a job every bit an illustrator for a novelty products company, Empire Novelty. Sheldon Anapol, possessor of Empire, motivated to share in the contempo cultural and financial success of Superman, attempts to break into the comic-volume business on the creative backs of Joe and Sammy. Under the proper noun "Sam Dirt", Sammy starts writing adventure stories with Joe illustrating them, and the ii recruit several other Brooklyn teenagers to produce Astonishing Midget Radio Comics (named to promote one of the visitor'southward novelty items). The pair is at one time passionate about their creation, earnestly optimistic about making money, and always nervous nearly the opinion of their employers.

The magazine features Sammy and Joe's graphic symbol, the Escapist, an anti-fascist superhero who combines traits of (among others) Houdini, Helm America, Batman, the Phantom, and the Scarlet Pimpernel. The Escapist becomes tremendously popular, just similar the talent behind Superman, the writers and artists of the comic go a minimal share of their publisher's revenue. Joe and Sammy are tiresome to realize that they are beingness exploited, as they have private concerns: Joe is trying to aid his family escape from Prague and has fallen in love with the bohemian Rosa Saks, who has her ain artistic aspirations, while Sammy works to discover his sexual identity and seeks progress in his professional and literary career.

For many months after coming to New York, Joe'south drive to help his family shows through in his work, which remains violently anti-Nazi despite his employer'due south concerns. In the meantime, he spends more and more than time with Rosa, appearing as a magician in the bar mitzvahs of the children of Rosa's father'due south acquaintances, even though he sometimes feels guilty for distracting himself from fighting for his family. Joe's efforts to bring his family unit to the States culminate in securing passage for his younger brother Thomas on the transport The Ark of Miriam. On the eve of the assail on Pearl Harbor even so, it transpires that Thomas'southward ship has been sunk by a German U-boat. Distraught and unaware that Rosa is pregnant with his child, Joe abruptly enlists in the navy, hoping to fight the Germans. Instead, he is sent to a secluded naval base of operations in Antarctica. Later a faulty chimney fills the base with carbon monoxide, Joe emerges from this interlude the lone survivor from his station. When he makes information technology dorsum to New York, he is ashamed to bear witness his face again to Rosa and Sammy and eschews their expected reunion. Unbeknownst to his previous contacts in the city, he squats in a hideout in the Empire State Building, with merely a small circle of magician-friends aware of his whereabouts.

Parallel to Joe's experiences leading upwards to the Us' entrance into the war, Sammy develops a romantic human relationship with the radio voice of The Escapist, Tracy Bacon. Tracy's movie-star good looks initially intimidate Sammy, but later they fall in dearest. When Tracy is cast every bit The Escapist for the film adaptation, he invites Sammy to move to Hollywood with him, an offer that Clay accepts. But later, when Tracy and Sammy go to a friend'due south beach house with several other gay couples, the individual dinner is raided by the local police besides equally two off-duty FBI agents. All of the men at the party are arrested, except for 2 who hide under the dinner table, one of whom is Sammy. The FBI agents apply their authority to sexually abuse Sammy and the other human being. Later on this episode, Sammy decides that he can't alive with the constant threat of being persecuted and breaks off his relationship with Tracy. When Joe leaves to fight in the state of war, Sammy marries Rosa and moves with her to the suburbs, where they raise her son Tommy in what outwardly appears to be a traditional nuclear family.

Sammy and Rosa cannot hide all their secrets from Tommy, however, who encounters Joe and begins to take private magic lessons in the Empire State Edifice with him for the better role of a year without anyone else's knowledge. Tommy is instrumental in finally reuniting the Kavalier and Clay duo, who swiftly find renewed enthusiasm in their comic endeavors. Joe moves into Sammy and Rosa's business firm and begins to rekindle his love with Rosa. Before long afterwards, Sammy's homosexuality is revealed on public television when he speaks at the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency that is investigating claims of comic books' pernicious effect on children. This farther complicates the attempts of Rosa, Sammy, and Joe to reconstitute a family. In the end, Sammy plans to movement to LA in spite of Joe and Rosa's attempts to dissuade him, including Joe revealing he has bought Empire Comics. The post-obit forenoon, they detect Sammy gone.

Inspiration [edit]

Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-volume creators, including Jack Kirby (to whom the book is dedicated in the afterword), Bob Kane, Stan Lee, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Joe Simon, Will Eisner and Jim Steranko. Other historical figures play small-scale roles, including Salvador Dalí, Al Smith, Orson Welles and Fredric Wertham. The novel's time span roughly mirrors that of the Golden Age of Comics itself, starting from before long later on the debut of Superman and concluding with the Kefauver Senate hearings, two events often used to demarcate the era.

Characters [edit]

  • Josef "Joe" Kavalier – 1 of the title characters – a 19-yr-sometime Jewish refugee from Prague.
  • Sammy Klayman, a.k.a. Sam Clay – The other championship character – Joe Kavalier's 17-year-old American cousin.
  • Rosa Saks – A bohemian artist who becomes Joe's dearest interest and later Sam's married woman.
  • Tracy Bacon – A handsome actor who plays the Escapist and helps Sam come to terms with his sexual identity. He helps add to the theme of escapism, and helps Sammy metaphorically escape out of his body.
  • Sheldon Anapol – The possessor of Empire Comics, the company that Sam and Joe work for.
  • George Deasey – Primary editor of Empire Comics.
  • The Escapist – Comic book superhero and brainchild of Kavalier & Clay. Embodies the wishes of the cousins.
  • Luna Moth – Kavalier & Clay'south master female grapheme. Joe came up with her largely on his own subsequently coming together Rosa Saks.
  • Bernard Kornblum – Joe Kavalier's magic and escapology teacher in Prague.
  • Carl Ebling - A Nazi sympathizer who makes threats against Empire Comics due to Sam and Joe'southward work.
  • Ethel Klayman – Sam Clay's mother.
  • Thomas Kavalier – Joe Kavalier's younger blood brother.
  • Thomas Edison Clay – Joe Kavalier and Rosa Clay née Saks' natural son and Sam Clay'due south stepson. Told he is Sam Clay's son until the reappearance of "cousin Joe".
  • Longman Harkoo – The father of Rosa Saks, begetter-in-law to Sam Clay.

Reception [edit]

In a contemporary review for The Guardian, Stephanie Merritt praised the volume, saying, "Kavalier and Dirt deserves a place alongside the best of contempo American fiction."[4] Entertainment Weekly put the novel on its end-of-the-decade "all-time-of" listing, proverb, "This 2000 novel blended comic books, Jewish mysticism, and American history into something truly amazing."[5] In 2019, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Dirt was ranked 57th on The Guardian 'southward list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.[half dozen]

Editions [edit]

  • U.South.: 2000, Random House, hardcover, ISBN 0-679-45004-1
  • U.S.: 2001, Picador, paperback, ISBN 0-312-28299-0
  • U.S.: 2012, Random House, paperback and e-book, ISBN 978-0-8129-8358-half-dozen. This edition includes a reader'south guide and an "Odds & Ends" section containing additional pieces past the writer: "Breakfast in the Wreck", "The Return of the Amazing Cavalieri", "The Crossover", and "50 Dollars Takes it Home".

Adaptations [edit]

Film [edit]

Every bit of 2022, the novel remains unfilmed. Producer Scott Rudin, who had worked with Chabon in the early nineties on The Gentlemen Host, bought the screen rights to The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Paramount Pictures based on a one-and-a-one-half page pitch before the novel had been published.[7] (Rudin was involved with the novel then early on that his proper name appears in the acknowledgements to its first edition.) After the book was published, Rudin hired Chabon to write the screen accommodation. In July 2002, it was reported that the procedure had taken 16 months and six drafts, none of which pleased the demanding Rudin. "Information technology's like those arcade games where a gopher caput pops out", Chabon said at the fourth dimension. "I set this and so another caput pops out."[7] Rudin explained that his bug with the drafts frequently derived from scenes in the book he wanted kept in the film and which Chabon, "incredibly unprecious about his work", had cut.[seven]

In their 2002 "It List", Entertainment Weekly alleged Kavalier & Clay the year'due south "It Script", publishing a short excerpt from the screenplay. Chabon told the publication, "A lot of things about the book are actually a pain in the neck [to adapt]....The story takes place over this huge bridge of time. At that place'south an 11-year gap in the middle when we don't see the characters at all. I wrote the offset draft of the screenplay from memory, equally if there were no novel at all and I were merely remembering a story that I had heard.... Much less fourth dimension passes in the movie than in the book. Information technology'southward really just the period of the state of war."[viii] While at that indicate, the film was in active pre-production (with Sydney Pollack attached to direct and Jude Law in talks to play Kavalier),[8] by late 2004 Chabon had declared the film project "very much dead".[9]

In November of that aforementioned year, though, manager Stephen Daldry announced in The New York Times that he planned to direct the film "next year."[10] In January 2005, Chabon posted on his web site that, "virtually a month ago, there was a very brief buzzing, as of a fruit fly, around the film version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. It was a casting-buzz. Information technology went similar this: Tobey Maguire equally Sam Clay. Jamie Bell as Joe Kavalier. Natalie Portman every bit Rosa Saks. It buzzed very seriously for well-nigh eleven minutes. So it went away."[xi] Actors Andrew Garfield, Ryan Gosling, Ben Whishaw and Jason Schwartzman were besides considered for parts in the project with Wishaw and Garfield doing scenes for a screen test titled The Window, Shabbos Dinner, The Return, The Story of the Golem, State of war Is Over.[12]

In June 2006, Chabon maintained that Portman was however "a stiff likelihood for the part of Rosa", and listed a number of important plot points present in the volume that would be left out of the movie. The list included the scene between Dirt and Tracy Bacon in the ruins of the 1939 New York Earth'southward Fair (though the movie would still feature a gay honey story), the Long Island scene, and the appearances of Orson Welles and Stan Lee.[xiii] Chabon added that "whether [this projection] will motion at last ... into really-truly pre-production, with a budget and bandage and everything, volition be decided on or effectually 12 July 2006."[13] Jamie Caliri, manager of music videos and other short films, posted ii and a half minutes of concept footage on his Vimeo channel, stating, "This slice was made every bit part of the development process... They asked me to explore animation concepts. I idea it would be much more fun to actually shoot a section of the script to intertwine alive action and animation."[xiv] In Baronial 2006, nonetheless, information technology was reported that the motion picture had "not been greenlit".[15] In April 2007, Chabon added that the project "just completely went south for studio-politics kinds of reasons that I'one thousand non privy to.... Right now, as far as I know, there's not a lot going on."[16]

Television [edit]

In a December 2011 interview, Stephen Daldry stated that he was considering making a Kavalier & Clay adaptation as a television miniseries rather than a feature moving-picture show, preferring to do it "on HBO as an eight-parter...If you could put that in the article and ring upwards HBO and tell them that'due south what I wanna practise, I'd really capeesh information technology."[17] In 2019, CBS Goggle box studios signed a multi-twelvemonth product pact with Chabon and his wife and writing partner Ayelet Waldman including plans to adapt the novel as a Showtime series.[18] Chabon confirmed in 2020 that he and Waldman were working on the script together, anticipating an initial run of "two eight-episode seasons."[nineteen]

Opera [edit]

In 2018, The Metropolitan Opera announced that they were in talks to co-commission an opera based on the novel, with Opera Philadelphia.[20]

Stage [edit]

In 2014, Seattle-based Volume-It Repertory Theatre produced a stage adaptation written by Jeff Schwager.[21] The product ran from June 8 to July 13, 2014, and featured a v-hour running time, including a xl-minute meal break. [22]

Cultural references [edit]

Josef "Joe" Kavalier is referred to in the 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont. The novel describes the friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s; information technology too includes Lester Dent, Walter B. Gibson, and 50. Ron Hubbard.

In a 2012 interview, Bridegroom Cumberbatch (Sherlock) mentioned his interest in playing in the movie if it e'er emerges from development hell.[23]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is ane of the essential items from the "Seth Cohen Starter Pack", portrayed by the actor Adam Brody in the American Goggle box evidence The O.C.

In 2016, a fan-made animated opening sequence to the film was uploaded onto Vimeo.[24]

In the novel, ane of the early on comics' covers has a painting of The Escapist punching Adolf Hitler in the jaw (on some editions of the volume itself, this is also the cover art). This is a reference to the real-life comic book series Captain America Comics, which showed the protagonist punching Hitler on the cover its first consequence, published a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay commencement edition cover art depicts The Escapist punching Hitler in the jaw.

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Chabon, Michael: INTRODUCTION" [ permanent dead link ] . Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 149. Thomson Gale, 2002. eNotes.com. 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
  2. ^ Birnbaum, Robert. "Bret Easton Ellis", The Morning News, 2006-01-19. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
  3. ^ Leonard, John. "Meshuga Alaska", The New York Review of Books, 2007-06-fourteen. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
  4. ^ Merritt, Stephanie (2001-07-08). "Paperback of the week: The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-12-27 .
  5. ^ Geier, Thom; Jensen, Jeff; Jordan, Tina; Lyons, Margaret; Markovitz, Adam; Nashawaty, Chris; Pastorek, Whitney; Rice, Lynette; Rottenberg, Josh; Schwartz, Missy; Slezak, Michael; Snierson, Dan; Stack, Tim; Stroup, Kate; Tucker, Ken; Vary, Adam B.; Vozick-Levinson, Simon; Ward, Kate (December 11, 2009), "THE 100 Greatest MOVIES, Tv SHOWS, ALBUMS, BOOKS, CHARACTERS, SCENES, EPISODES, SONGS, DRESSES, MUSIC VIDEOS, AND TRENDS THAT ENTERTAINED US OVER THE By 10 YEARS". Amusement Weekly. (1079/1080):74-84
  6. ^ "The 100 best books of the 21st century". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Gottlieb, Jeff (2002-07-16). "TRIP ALONG WRITE PATH: Writer struggles for Hollywood catastrophe". The Milwaukee Journal Spotter. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2007-01-17 .
  8. ^ a b "It SCRIPT". Amusement Weekly. 2002-06-28. Retrieved 2007-02-14 .
  9. ^ Chabon, Michael. "Chabon: Kavalier Movie Appears "Very Much Dead"". The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay. Archived from the original on 2007-01-12. Retrieved 2007-01-17 .
  10. ^ Hass, Nancy (2004-11-07). "Scott Rudin's Three Ring Holiday Circus". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-01-17 .
  11. ^ "Chabon Spills Casting Rumors". The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Dirt. Archived from the original on 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2007-01-17 .
  12. ^ "Sectional: Boy A'due south Andrew Garfield & John Crowley".
  13. ^ a b "Natalie Portman in Kavalier & Dirt?". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 2007-01-17 .
  14. ^ "The Escapist five.s. The Iron Gauntlet" past Jamie Caliri, Vimeo.com, Retrieved 2013-05-x
  15. ^ Voynar, Kim. "Kavalier and Clay Stalls; Snowfall a No-Go for Chabon". Cinematical.com. Retrieved 2007-01-eighteen .
  16. ^ Hodler, Timothy. Michael Chabon Q & A Archived May 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Details Mag. 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-fifteen.
  17. ^ Stephen Daldry Wants to Adapt Michael Chabon'southward THE Amazing ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY as eight-Office HBO Miniseries, Collider.com, 11 December 2011
  18. ^ Thorne, Will. "Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Fix 'Kavalier and Clay' Series at Outset, Overall Deal With CBS". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  19. ^ Krochmal, Shana Naomi. "Michael Chabon on 20 years of Kavalier & Clay, from its origin story to its Goggle box future". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  20. ^ Cooper, Michael (Sep 23, 2018). "The Met Is Creating New Operas (Including Its First by Women)". Retrieved Aug 6, 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
  21. ^ Schwager, Jeff. "The fine art of adapting novels for the stage | Crosscut". crosscut.com . Retrieved Aug half-dozen, 2020.
  22. ^ "The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book-It Repertory Theatre . Retrieved Aug six, 2020.
  23. ^ "io9 | Gizmodo - All the top news nigh comics, Sci-Fi, and fantasy". io9 . Retrieved Aug 6, 2020.
  24. ^ Animation, FFAKE (Mar 2, 2016). "Kavalier & Klay Opening". Retrieved Aug 6, 2020 – via Vimeo.

External links [edit]

  • Michael Chabon author web site
  • "The Escapist 5.s. The Atomic number 26 Gauntlet", Pre-production concept footage, Jamie Caliri
  • Interview with Michael Chabon virtually The Escapist
  • Photos of the kickoff edition of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at IMDb
  • The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay One Volume, 1 Chicago spider web site

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