The Incomparable Atuk is a satirical novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. It was first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel was published as Stick Your Neck Out in the United States.
The Incomparable Atuk, which some say is loosely modeled on Voltaire's L'Ingénu, tells the story of a Canadian Inuit who is transplanted to Toronto and who quickly adopts the greed and pretensions of the big city.
A film adaptation was in the works in the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, but never followed through. Most of the actors who were shown the script died before they could be cast. The movie, which would have been simply called Atuk, is the subject of a Hollywood movie curse.
Famous quotes containing the word incomparable:
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)