Boxer, Beetle
Autor Ned Beaumanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2011
Ce s-ar întâmpla dacă obsesia științifică pentru perfecțiune s-ar întâlni, într-un colț întunecat al istoriei, cu cele mai joase impulsuri umane? În „Boxer, Beetle” (book), Ned Beauman (author) ne propune o incursiune hipnotică și ușor inconfortabilă într-un univers unde genetica și fascismul se împletesc sub aripile lucioase ale gândacilor. Remarcăm o construcție narativă care refuză liniaritatea facilă, preferând în schimb un ritm alert, de urmărire, populat de personaje pe care cititorul le va găsi, paradoxal, irezistibile în ciuda naturii lor deplorabile. Romanul pendulează între cluburi de noapte și teorii darwiniste, între violența străzii și rigoarea rece a colecționarului, totul fiind livrat într-un stil rafinat, aproape chirurgical. Amintește de The Teleportation Accident prin umorul negru și inventivitatea lingvistică debordantă, dar se diferențiază prin concentrarea pe o estetică a grotescului și a „sângelui nobil”. Dacă în lucrări ulterioare precum Venomous Lumpsucker autorul explorează extincția prin prisma tehnologiei, aici sursa tensiunii este pur biologică și ideologică. Putem afirma că acest debut a stabilit coordonatele carierei lui Beauman: o curiozitate intelectuală nestăvilită, dublată de o plăcere aproape sadică de a pune sub lupă defectele societății britanice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0340998415
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: None
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza britanică contemporană de o inteligență tăioasă. Este o lectură pentru cei care caută mai mult decât o intrigă polițistă, dorind să exploreze legăturile bizare dintre știință, politică și obsesie personală. Veți câștiga o experiență literară densă, provocatoare, care demonstrează de ce Beauman este considerat unul dintre cei mai inventivi autori ai generației sale.
Despre autor
Ned Beauman (author), născut la Londra în 1985, este un scriitor britanic a cărui ascensiune a fost marcată de o erudiție neobișnuită pentru vârsta sa. Licențiat în filosofie la Cambridge, debutul său cu „Boxer, Beetle” a fost primit cu entuziasm de critică, obținând Goldberg Prize și o nominalizare pe lista lungă a Man Booker Prize. În 2013, revista Granta l-a inclus în decenalul lor „Best of Young British Novelists”. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o fuziune între genurile de nișă și literatura înaltă, explorând adesea teme precum tehnologia, biologia și absurdul existențial în context istoric sau speculativ.
Descriere
Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the for the Guardian First Book Award, Ned Beauman was chosen by The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Writers in 2011.
This is a novel for people with breeding.
Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase.
There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles.
It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining.
We hope you are too.
Recenzii
an enjoyable confection; witty, ludicrous and entertaining
An astonishing debut...buzzing with energy, fizzing with ideas, intoxicating in its language, Boxer, Beetle is sexy, intelligent and deliriously funny
A rambunctious, deftly-plotted delight of a debut
Ned Beauman's astonishingly assured debut starts as it means to go on: confident, droll, and not in the best of taste . . . Many first novels are judged promising. Boxer, Beetle arrives fully formed: original, exhilarating and hugely enjoyable.
Frighteningly assured
Exuberant . . . There are politics, black comedy, experimentation and wild originality - and I haven't even got to the beetles. Terrific.
Debut bout is a real knockout . . . dazzling
Its ambitions are enormous, in terms of the range, energy and quality of the writing
Dazzling . . . As in PG Wodehouse and the early Martin Amis the tone is mischievous and impudent without being merely jaunty or wacky . . . in Erksine and Broom we have two endlessly curious heroes whose thoughts are fascinating even at their silliest.
A witty, erudite debut . . . thick with trivia, it confidently takes on British fascism, the Thule society, anti-Semitism, atonal composition, sex, and the class system . . . An articulate and original romp . . . often gobsmackingly smutty. Beauman is one to watch.
Not one for the easily shocked, young scribe Ned Beauman subjects the reader to a parade of ghoulish events and ghastly theories throughout his dazzling first novel Boxer, Beetle . . . deeply researched and punchily written, this is an utterly unique work that marks the London-based author out as an exciting new voice in fiction.
Beauman skips with panache between his dreadful version of the present and the macabre absurdities of a period when cock-eyed science and rabid anti-Semitism provided a toxic cocktail for the upper classes. His killer irony evokes early Evelyn Waugh, and his lateral take on reality Will Self at his unsettling best. This is humour that goes beyond black, careening off into regions of darkness to deliver the funniest new book I've read in a year or two.
Clever, inventive, intelligently structured, genre-spanning, as magpie-like in its references as any graphic novel, and above all, an enjoyable, high-octane read through a fascinating period in history.
The 1930s are wonderfully evoked, and the historical sections of the novel are taut, thematically rich and extremely well written . . . it takes real skill to make a tragic hero out of the five-foot, nine-toed alcoholic Seth Roach . . . it's clear from this compelling debut that Beauman can perform the complicated paradoxical trick required of the best 21st-century realist novelists: to take an old and predictable structure and allow it to produce new and unpredictable connections.
An edifying treatise on the absurdity of eugenics and racial theories, and probably the most politically incorrect novel of the decade - as well as the funniest . . . Monstrous misfits with ugly motives are beautifully rendered in a novel where Beauman's scrupulous research is deftly threaded through serious themes in a laugh-out-loud-on-the-train history lesson.
I can only gape in admiration at a new writing force and wonder what he's going to produce next.
The scenes set in the past are reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall in their grotesque stupidity and amorality, and the present-day characters are as ruthless as any in modern noir fiction. It also makes a persuasive argument for the moral repercussions of Darwinism and the absurdities of fascism and repressed homosexuality, but that's just three aspects of a witty, fascinating and romping read.
Beauman writes with wit and verve.
'This first novel is as oddball and rambunctious as it sounds. It's also funny, raw and stylish.'