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Lädt ... Natural History: A Novel (2020. Auflage)von Carlos Fonseca (Autor)
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"Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom -- with camouflage and subterfuge -- and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues to the true story of the designer's family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungle. On the way, he discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion: an aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, who creates models of ruined cities; a former model turned conceptual artist -- and a defendant in a trial over the very nature and purpose of art; a young indigenous boy who has received a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, as the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of obsession. Natural History is the portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, between tragedy and farce." -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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You will be underlining and writing in the margins of this book, its possible that you will not and that it just the way that I express excitement when I read something that is truly special. Natural History is this beautifully written gem - the writing is astonishing and it's a translated work! The original must just be even more mind blowing so its a big accomplishment for translator Megan McDowell too. There are stunning atmospheric dreamlike effects in the writing. I found myself putting down the book so many times to either mouth out loud or think out the lines I loved most or just sit and ponder on the descriptions. It has the Natural History museum, it has archives, it has animals and mystery and subterranean adventure and intrigue and man its puzzling and Dennis Hopper fits into it too! and to boot its chock full of wildly interesting ideas and insights. Natural History is a literary atomic bomb.
So the story develops from the moment a curator at the New Jersey museum of natural history begins to collaborate with a famous fashion designer and they both have this common interest in animals and camouflage and so they begin to work on an exhibit. But what is the exhibit?! Who knows? It is all very obscure and slippery. After the designer dies some years later the curator finds the archive of the mysterious never completed exhibit and this is where things start to really get good its where the adventures begin. Then there is the boy who has visions of the end times.
This novel is so timely. Like any great novel its a mirror a portrait of the world we live in now. It is so bold and confident. Its a daring work that will challenge you in the best way possible. I am looking forward to more translated work out of Carlos Fonseca. High recommendations here. (