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Ladataan... The Fit (2004)Tekijä: Philip Hensher
  
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John, the hero of this novel, is an indexer, and as he assures us, ‘bloody good at it’, so that’s what his fellow professionals will want to know about, his practice of his profession – never mind his wife’s leaving him, her journeying and return, her former lover, John’s sister’s wedding, the murder years earlier of their other sister and its aftermath, the German who arrives proclaiming his homosexuality and making advances to John, the Indian woman photographer who attaches herself to him, the night club with its drug-taking . . . The aim of his novel, Hensher has said, ‘was to subvert the traditional modes of the English comic novel with disjunctures of tone and mode’. Accompanying this aim is a characterization of the indexer as schlemiel – a bungler, or dolt, in everything except indexing. John Carrington, Hensher’s hero-narrator, awakes one morning to find a farewell letter from his wife on the pillow alongside his head. Theirs has not been a marriage marked by intimate communication. She has, John notes, misspelled ‘possessive’. So, The Fit doesn't, quite: it seems partly intended as a serious, sensitive book about incomplete creatures seeking to make themselves whole, but it is remarkable really as a knockabout venting of spleen and fury; Janet and John sit ill at ease with Wasia and Hope. Hensher is gifted with a great virtuosity and a relentless intelligence that have already seen him tackle novels, short stories, an opera libretto, screeds of reviews, highbrow, middlebrow, historical, contemporary, British, European and Asian, yet The Fit seems out of place even among all this unusual range and variety - a mere period, a blip or a mood. It's the sort of book that makes you think, "Huh, OK. So what next?" After the success of The Mulberry Empire, his historical novel about Afghanistan, Philip Hensher has looked around for new worlds to conquer. His choice has landed on suburban London, on a marriage that founders. This more standard subject leaves Hensher oddly cold. The little miseries and meanings of life, as lived in Wandsworth, Bromley and Streatham, call out almost no spark of response in this unpredictable writer.
From the author of The Mulberry Empire comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to a Dear John letter informing him his wife has left him... 'My wife had gone and I didn't know where she had gone. It would have been terrible if I had liked her but I only loved her. 'John is an indexer, and a bloody good one at that. He lives in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden, and has a beautiful wife, Janet. (Yes, yes, they are called Janet and John. They know. )But lately, things have begun to go wrong. Thanks to his flawless index for 'Haddock: The Story of the Fish Which Changed the World', John has become typecast, and a commission for an index for 'Squid Through the Ages in Poetry and Prose' swiftly followed. And to cap it all, he's woken up with a terrible case of the hiccups, and Janet has left him... Wonderfully funny and light, but ultimately very moving, The Fit is English comic writing at its best, from one of the most talented young novelists at work today. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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