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Lädt ... Bleeding edge [unabridged audio] (2013. Auflage)von Thomas Pynchon, Jeannie Berlin
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[I]n Bleeding Edge Pynchon is prepared to handle material even chancier than Anti-Life or creature-feature cheese. As the organ reverberates, at the end of chapter nine, after someone in the summer of 2001 tells a nervous little New Yorker whose father works in the building that the WTC is built like a battleship, Pynchon declares his paradoxical readiness—under special, limited circumstances—to abandon irony entirely. At this moment—when innocence, irony’s eternal patsy, needs to be protected—the postmodern deflector shields buckle, then collapse, bathing the USS Bleeding Edge in a burst of parental love and remorse. No doubt a good genre book is worth more than a bad literary one any day, but when a writer with real genius squanders so much of his energy on clowning – and for an audience it's not at all clear he respects – it's worth asking what's going on. The idea that jokes are a defence against intimacy is a cliche – perhaps they can also be a defence against close reading. Pynchon depicts the world as he sees it, riddled by the depredations of greed, conspiracy and intolerance, of entropies both human-engineered and cosmically imposed. But his novels take the form of the world as he wishes it, hence their mighty powers of consolation. The freedoms and duties Pynchon assigns himself are those he desires on our behalf — lasciviousness, punning inanity, attention to the routinely sublime but also to the inevitability of suffering, love for the underdog and a home in our hearts for the dead. Also, license to attempt disappearance into some radical space adjacent to history, and to daily life — what the anarchist philosopher Hakim Bey has called “Temporary Autonomous Zones” — even if the costs of such jaunts are, in the end, punishingly high. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Einige Monate vor 9/11. Maxine, Inhaberin einer Betrugsermittlungsagentur wird auf eine große Sache bei einer Softwarefirma aufmerksam: nicht nur, dass es in den Tiefen des Web eine sog. Bleeding Edge-Technologie, Deep Archer, gibt, was kein Computerprogramm, sondern ein wirklicher Zufluchtsort sein soll, wo Avatare sich "real" treffen können, der Chef der Firma, Gabriel Ice, scheint seine Finger im Spiel mit dem Nahen Osten zu haben. 9/11 wirft seinen Schatten voraus. (Gabriele Oberhauser-Gutheil)
New York, 2001: Maxine Tarnow ermittelt in Sachen Wirtschaftskriminalität und stößt dabei auf die mysteriösen Machenschaften einer Firma für Computersicherheit. Ab nun muss sie um ihr Leben fürchten. Ein Roman über die Anfänge des Internets und die Zeit kurz vor den Anschlägen des 11. September. (Gabriele Oberhauser-Gutheil) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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