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Lädt ... The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (Original 2000; 2000. Auflage)von Jonathan Lethem
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I can't say that I read every single story, but the opening essay by Lethem is pretty interesting. He wanted the book to be about amnesia as a literary device, not just a psychological state. So there are lots of stories in which no one has amnesia, but pieces are missing in some way. I especially liked the Borges story. Side note: I really recommend Lethem's book The Fortress of Solitude if you like comics, a little bit of fantasy in the real world, music, and coming of age stories. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
BeinhaltetWarm von Robert Sheckley Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds von Haruki Murakami Ist eine Kurzfassung vonLouse von David Grand
Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.nbsp;nbsp;In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.nbsp;nbsp;He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to say which is real; Philip K. Dick, who tells the story of a man trapped on a spaceship of the somnolent, unable to sleep and slowly losing his mind; Shirley Jackson, who takes us on a nightmarish trip across town with a young secretary; and Oliver Sacks, who presents us with an aging hippie who possesses no memory of anything that has taken place since the early seventies. What Lethem has done is nothing less than define a new genre of literature-the amnesia story-and in the process he invites us to sit down, pick up the book, and begin to forget. Also including: John Franklin Bardin, Donald Barthelme, Thomas M. Disch, Karn Joy Fowler, David Grand, Anna Kavan, Haruki Murakami, Flann O'Brien, Edmund White, and many others. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The second problem is they're not exceptional overall. These stories are overall average and a few below average. Most were just dull. There were only one or two that really grabbed my attention and became more memorable (he, he). Even the Lethem contribution starts great and then just devolves into (alleged) cleverness.
The only thing I'm sure of is in about 2 years I will have developed amnesia whenever someone asks me anything about this book. ( )