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"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?"--… (mehr)
Ich mag alle Bücher, bei denen der Autor etwas über die Kunst des Schreibens aussagt. Hier ist dies der Fall und man ist mittendrin in den Seminaren über kreatives Schreiben, die vor allem von mittelprächtig erfolgreichen Autoren angeboten werden. So auch hier. Was der Geschichte an Höchst-Spannung fehlt, wird durch Aussagen über Autoren und der Suche nach einem guten Plot wettgemacht. Ich habe das Buch über einen längeren Zeitraum gelesen und konnte immer wieder Neues entdecken. Wie und durch wen entsteht ein Plot im Kopf eines Schriftstellers? Wo schreiben sie ab, wo zu? Sind alle Ideen schon mal da gewesen? Das ganze Drumherum, die Antriebe, Gedanken und Hoffnungen eines Autors, hier wird nichts ausgelassen.
Und obendrein: der Plot ist raffiniert gestrickt, ich habe das Ende so nicht kommen sehen.
Aus dem Nachwort: "Unter Kreativen wird man nirgendwo mehr Selbstgeißelung finden als unter Schriftstellern. Und dennoch sind wir vom Glück begünstigt. Erstens, weil wir mit Sprache arbeiten, und Sprache ist aufregend. Zweitens, weil wir Geschichten lieben und uns in ihnen austoben dürfen. Entlockt, abgeluchst, geborgt, angepasst, ausgeschmückt ... vielleicht sogar gestohlen. Es ist alles Teil einer großartigen Konversation."
Translation:
I like all books where the author says something about the art of writing. This is the case here and you are right in the middle of the seminars on creative writing, which are mainly offered by moderately successful authors. Same here. What the story lacks in high suspense it makes up for in credits and the search for a good plot. I read this book for a long time and kept discovering new things. How and by whom does a plot develop in the mind of a writer? Where do you write off, where to? Have you already had all your ideas? All the trappings, the drives, thoughts and hopes of an author, nothing is left out here.
And on top of that: the plot is cleverly knitted, I didn’t see the end coming like this.
From the epilogue: "Nowhere will you find more self-flagellation among creative people than among writers. And yet we are fortunate. First, because we work with language, and language is exciting. Second, because we love stories and are allowed to let off steam in them. Coaxed, borrowed, adapted, embellished... maybe even stolen. It's all part of a great conversation."
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Jacob Finch Bonner, the once promising author of the "New & Noteworthy" (The New York Times Book Review) novel The Invention of Wonder, let himself into the office he'd been assigned on the second floor of Richard Peng Hall, set his beat-up leather satchel on the barren desk, and looked around in something akin to despair.
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“You hear hoofbeats in the park, do you think horses or zebras?”
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"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?"--
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Und obendrein: der Plot ist raffiniert gestrickt, ich habe das Ende so nicht kommen sehen.
Aus dem Nachwort: "Unter Kreativen wird man nirgendwo mehr Selbstgeißelung finden als unter Schriftstellern. Und dennoch sind wir vom Glück begünstigt. Erstens, weil wir mit Sprache arbeiten, und Sprache ist aufregend. Zweitens, weil wir Geschichten lieben und uns in ihnen austoben dürfen. Entlockt, abgeluchst, geborgt, angepasst, ausgeschmückt ... vielleicht sogar gestohlen. Es ist alles Teil einer großartigen Konversation."
Translation:
I like all books where the author says something about the art of writing. This is the case here and you are right in the middle of the seminars on creative writing, which are mainly offered by moderately successful authors. Same here. What the story lacks in high suspense it makes up for in credits and the search for a good plot. I read this book for a long time and kept discovering new things. How and by whom does a plot develop in the mind of a writer? Where do you write off, where to? Have you already had all your ideas? All the trappings, the drives, thoughts and hopes of an author, nothing is left out here.
And on top of that: the plot is cleverly knitted, I didn’t see the end coming like this.
From the epilogue: "Nowhere will you find more self-flagellation among creative people than among writers. And yet we are fortunate. First, because we work with language, and language is exciting. Second, because we love stories and are allowed to let off steam in them. Coaxed, borrowed, adapted, embellished... maybe even stolen. It's all part of a great conversation."
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