{"product_id":"9781680033038-five-conversations-about-peter-sell","title":"Five Conversations About Peter Sellers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHybrid Play\/Essay\u003cbr\u003eBegins as an exploration of the author’s burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in derailing production of the spy spoof, \u003cem\u003eCasino Royale\u003c\/em\u003e. But what begins as a reported piece on how the film set erupted into chaos, quickly devolves into its own chaos as the essay splits into five different narrators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Conversations About Peter Sellers\u003c\/i\u003e is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author’s burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, \u003ci\u003eCasino Royale\u003c\/i\u003e, in the late 60s. But what begins as a reported piece on how the film set erupted into chaos, quickly devolves into its own chaos as the essay splits into 5 different narrators, each with their own idea of what the essay is actually about. Is it about how Peter Sellers and his oversize ego ruined \u003ci\u003eCasino Royale\u003c\/i\u003e? Is it about how society has too long allowed horrible men to run the world? Is it an exploration of the nature of the essay as a creative form? Or is Peter Sellers and his genius at impersonation actually a vehicle through which the author probes her own shifting identity as a bi-ethnic person? The answer is.yes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Five Conversations About Peter Sellers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth: There’s a passage in \u003c\/i\u003eNotes from Underground\u003ci\u003e where the narrator speaks about the perverse pleasure of knowing your own vileness. ‘This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet can’t be otherwise, that you no longer have any way out, that you will never become a different man.’ Build all the utopias you want, but some people can only know they’re alive when they’ve destroyed everything beautiful around them.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55143840055670,"sku":"9781680033038","price":14.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38153341_b92f9bbb-dd0a-4ffd-a6a4-bf35f04a51f0.jpg?v=1763759367","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781680033038-five-conversations-about-peter-sell","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}