| 词条 | The Artistic Career of Corky |
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| name = The Artistic Career of Corky | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:Leave_it_to_Jeeves.jpg | caption = 1916 Strand illustration by Alfred Leete | author = P. G. Wodehouse | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Jeeves | genre = Comedy | publisher = Saturday Evening Post | release_date = February 1916 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Magazine) | pages = | oclc = | preceded_by = Jeeves Takes Charge | followed_by = Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest }} "The Artistic Career of Corky" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in February 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in June 1916, as "Leave it to Jeeves". The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1] The story takes place in New York. The artist Corky, a friend of Bertie's, wants to get approval from his uncle to marry his fiancée Muriel. To help Corky, Jeeves proposes a plan that involves books about American birds. PlotBertie is in New York. His friend, Bruce "Corky" Corcoran, a struggling artist, relies on an allowance from his rich uncle Alexander Worple, who runs a jute business. Corky introduces his fiancée, Muriel Singer, to Bertie. Corky is afraid that his disagreeable uncle will not approve of her. At Bertie's bidding, Jeeves suggests that, since Mr. Worple wrote a book about birds called "American Birds", Muriel should write "The Children's Book of American Birds" and dedicate it to Mr. Worple, and then send Worple a letter thanking him for his work and asking to meet him. Muriel does not feel she can write a book, so Jeeves proposes they pay a ghostwriter. To help Corky and Muriel, Bertie pays to have the book published and written. Worple replies to Muriel's letter that he would be happy to meet her. Bertie leaves town for several months to be with friends in the country. He returns to New York and spots Muriel in a restaurant. She has married Alexander Worple. Shocked, Bertie returns to his flat and tells Jeeves, though Jeeves is not surprised, having known this was a possibility. Bertie, uneasy about seeing Corky after this, avoids Corky, but eventually visits Corky after reading in the paper that Muriel and Worple have had a son. Bertie learns that Corky has been commissioned by his uncle to paint a picture of the baby. The situation is terrible for Corky, but he has no choice. {{Quote box|width = 30em |border = 1px |align = right |bgcolor = #c6dbf7 |fontsize = 85% |title_bg = |title_fnt = |title = |quote = "I've got through the mere outward appearance, and have put the child's soul on canvas." "But could a child of that age have a soul like that? I don't see how he could have managed it in the time." |salign = right |source = — Corky and Bertie, about Corky's painting[2] }} Later, Corky asks Bertie to see the painting. Bertie finds it ugly. Corky believes he has painted the soul of his model. Worple arrives and is appalled by the painting, calling it an extract from a comic supplement. He ends Corky's allowance, leaving Corky distraught. Jeeves, taking inspiration from Worple's comment, believes that the picture could be the foundation for a series of comedic drawings, and suggests the title "The Adventures of Baby Blobbs". Corky cheerfully agrees. The drawings become successful and Corky gives Jeeves a generous reward. Bertie decides to wear a blue suit with a faint red stripe, but Jeeves wants him to wear a brown suit; Bertie agrees to have it Jeeves's way. StyleBertie Wooster's language mixes slang with ordinary phrasing, for example when Bertie describes Corky: "His principal source of income, however, was derived from biting the ear of a rich uncle—one Alexander Worple, who was in the jute business. I'm a bit foggy as to what jute is, but it's apparently something the populace is pretty keen on, for Mr. Worple had made quite an indecently large stack out of it."[3] BackgroundWodehouse realized the potential of Jeeves, who originally had only a minor role in his debut story "Extricating Young Gussie", while writing this story. In his introduction to The World of Jeeves, Wodehouse wrote: I find it curious, now that I have written so much about him, to recall how softly and undramatically Jeeves first entered my little world... It was only some time later, when I was going into the strange affair which is related under the title of "The Artistic Career of Corky", that the man's qualities dawned upon me. I still blush to think of the off-hand way I treated him at our first encounter.[4] Publication historyIllustrated first by Tony Sarg in the Saturday Evening Post, the story was later illustrated by Alfred Leete in the Strand.[5] The story was included in the 1919 collection My Man Jeeves under the title "Leave it to Jeeves", and revised for Carry On, Jeeves and retitled "The Artistic Career of Corky".[6] Under the latter title, the story was included in the 1958 collection Selected Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.[7] AdaptationsThis story was adapted into the Jeeves and Wooster episode "Introduction on Broadway", the third episode of the third series, which first aired in the UK on 12 April 1992.[8] There are some differences in plot, including:
References
1. ^Cawthorne (2013), p. 44. 2. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1925], chapter 2, p. 54. 3. ^{{cite book | last= Thompson| first= Kristin | authorlink= Kristin Thompson| title= Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes or Le Mot Juste| location=New York |publisher= James H. Heineman, Inc.|date=1992 | page=285 |isbn=0-87008-139-X}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Green |first=Benny |date=1981 |title=P. G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=219 |isbn=0-19-281390-0 |author-link= }} 5. ^McIlvaine (1990), p. 155, D59.18, and p.183, D133.50 6. ^McIlvaine (1990), p. 33, A22a, and pp. 47-49, A34. 7. ^McIlvaine (1990), p. 120, B11a. 8. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/3/3/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 3, Episode 3 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=5 November 2017 |quote=}}
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