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Lädt ... The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laingvon Nicholas Rombes
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A far weirder book than Night Film but a sibling to it in a wonderful way. I looked at the world differently after reading The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, not in the sense of understanding it differently but in the sense of having briefly slid across into a neighboring universe and seen a glimpse of a place that is just slightly not the one we’re currently inhabiting. At its core, this is a novel about the power of film – but it achieves so much more than that with an ease and skill that bely the author’s debut status. And if you’re lucky and you reach out to Mr. Rombes, you might even end up, as I did, with more sense of the blurring line between fiction and reality – for in my mailbox the other day came a note with a filmstrip and some ephemera from Laing’s own archive… More at TNBBC: http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/drew-reviews-absolution-of-rober... and at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2015/08/26/the-absolution-of-roberto-acestes-laing... Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
*A Best Book of 2014 --Flavorwire,Entropy Magazine,Book Riot "The novel is an attempt to write about film through fiction, engaging both art forms at once with the analytic mind of the academic and the imagination of the storyteller. In the process, Rombes found the freedom of fiction pushing him towards a new type of writing. For the reader, there is little we can know for sure, but this is what makes the book so exciting." --Irish Times Synopsis In the mid-'90s a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burned his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappeared. Roberto Acestes Laing was highly regarded by acclaimed directors around the globe for his keen eye, appreciation for eccentricity, and creativity in interpretation. Unsure at first whether Laing is a pseudonym or some sort of Hollywood boogeyman, a journalist manages to track the forgotten man down to a motel on the fringe of the Wisconsin wilds. Laing agrees to speak with the journalist, but only through the lens of the cinema. What ensues is an atmospheric, cryptic extrapolation of movies and how they intertwine with life, and the forgotten films that curse the lost librarian still. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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More at TNBBC: http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/drew-reviews-absolution-of-rober...
and at RB: http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2015/08/26/the-absolution-of-roberto-acestes-laing... ( )