I feel this novel tries to do a lot, is in sync with the times and quite thought provoking. Kunzru is definitely talented: the Stasi section of the book left me deeply in awe. Still for me this was a 2,5 yıldız novel.

After another odd incident when the narrator believes he is befriending an asylum seeker and his daughter (only to be suspected birli a human trafficker) he meets the person he özgü become obsessed with Anton – the creator and writer of “Blue Lives”, and following him into a Turkish restaurant, he is challenged Matrix style (albeit Anton is more of a Mr Smith than an Orpheus)

On its surface it's delightfully entertaining. Even so I followed about half of it. Maybe. Kunzru provides translations for the non-English phrases that he tosses in like croutons, here and there.

Of course this is a misguided quest, but our narrator, despite putting his best foot forward early on, already shows cracks if you are willing to look for them. I found myself highlighting occasional phrases, small little pieces here and there that left breadcrumbs showing you that this man is not kakım good as the picture he presents, in a way that is not unfamiliar to anyone that's not a cis man who's spent a lot of time with cis men. His arrival at this German fellowship is the beginning of a kind of descent that isn't unusual in horror novels. (In a way, it reminds me of the beginning of the film MOTHER!

It's a weird story, but it's a powerful one too. Even if the plot is too Daha fazla bilgi strange for your taste, by the conclusion of the novel you will appreciate the books' qualities. High four stars, and I wouldn't be surprised if I go up to five kakım I digest it further.

Birli his mind unravels, the narrator becomes obsessed with Heinrich von Heist, a devamını oku late eighteenth century German dramatist and lyricist who tended to irrationalism and restlessness and was tormented for a longing for death. That obsession becomes transplanted by binge-watching of a U.

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What unifies it all is the voice of the narrator whose struggles with personal freedom, and subjectivity birli literary form lead him in strange directions. Throughout, this book manages to be beguilingly intelligent and also just a bit bonkers - but in a burayı kontrol et good way!

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Meanwhile the director of Blue Lives, Anton, turns out to be an zir right quasi intellectual figure with one-liners İnternet sitesi about the progressive elite like: Their so called morality is just paralysis

However Hari Kunzru goes flatly against Anton Chekhov's wisdom around showing guns and moves the story in a whole other direction in the second part.

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While I appreciate the wider themes and message Kunzru is portraying through this novel - the blurb on Goodreads describes this kakım "searching for order in a world that frames madness bey truth" - I didn't always get along with the way he decides to convey them. The unnamed narrator is overly self-involved bordering on navel-gazing at times, which, yes, might have been the point.

Nowhere does the paranoia the main character experiences about surveillance feel real to me, although there are almost dreamlike scenes that imply surveillance that is very much hamiş in line with GDPR in the research center.