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Ladataan... God Jr. (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2005; vuoden 2005 painos)Tekijä: Dennis Cooper
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is by far the best review of Banjo Kazooie I've ever read. Un romanzo crudo, come sempre per Cooper. Questa volta il sesso è assente. Non serve. La crudezza di un padre he si sente colpevole della morte del figlio adolescente si rintraccia nei dialoghi secchi e nelle visioni frutto dell’abuso di droga. E così un videogioco diventa una metafora forte della vita e della morte. E della incapacità di distinguere cosa sia vero e cosa sia falso. E dove la morte non fa male. God Jr. is a very important part of Cooper’s body of work—partly because, unlike most of his other fiction, all of the physical violence in God Jr. happens “off-stage.” In the absence of explicit horror I could see and feel the psychic landscape of disconnection and escapism without the voyeurism and adrenaline that clouded my reading of the earlier books. The horror in God Jr. is heartbreakingly ordinary: the failure of a father to connect with other people, especially his son, drives him to absurdity and escapism. Jim doesn’t know how to solve his grief and unhappiness any more than he knew how to solve his loneliness before his son’s death (sex and drugs didn’t work?!). He tries to make sense of his loss and connect through the things he thinks were important to his son: getting high and playing silly computer games. Surprise, surprise, this doesn’t really solve anything, but allows him to build a fantasy of connection to replace the emptiness that is truly tragic. So we watch, increasingly saddened and frustrated, as his absurdity and escapism provide him with little else than an incomplete numbness. In the end, what Cooper leaves us with is the gut-wrenching sensation of failed connections. It is clear as the novel goes on that Jim’s attempts to find meaning and beauty primarily through fantasy and escape always kept him from meaningful human relationships. As Jim discovers that he didn’t know anything about what was important to his son, he retreats further and further into fantasy, but even his fantasies refuse to allow him peace. He fucked up, over and over and over, and now that it’s too late the only option is to disappear. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
The author of Closer "transcends the formulaic with exquisite writing on the level of Rimbaud's Illuminations . . . an American masterpiece" (James McCourt, Los Angeles Times). God Jr. is the story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son Tommy. Tommy was distant, transfixed by video games and pop culture, and a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning somehow to absolve his own guilt over the crash, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. As the fixation grows, Jim starts to take on elements of his son--at the expense of his job and marriage--but is he connecting with who Tommy truly was? A tender, wrenching look at guilt, grief, and the tenuous bonds of family, God Jr. is unlike anything Dennis Cooper has yet written. It is a triumphant achievement from one of our finest writers. "This beautiful book is a first-person narration of how grief grows and morphs after a death, and its style and naked pain make the reader feel like he has suffered a concussion . . . Carefully wrought in Cooper's trademark short, clipped sentences. There's no room for the pain to hide, and Cooper lays it bare with humor and striking honesty." --Time Out Chicago "God Jr. is probably Cooper's richest, most philosophical novel to date. If the cycle were a video game, this would be its Easter egg." --SF Gate "Absorbing . . . carefully spare, pop-cultures prose that has earned him a cult following." --Entertainment Weekly Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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