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S'està carregant… Holiday in a Coma: And, Love Lasts Three Years: Two Novelsde Frederic Beigbeder
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I read the first story here for book club, but as far as I can tell you can't get the English translation without the second story in the same volume. Holiday In A Coma follows the protagonist, Marc Maronnier (who is pretty much an authorial insert), over one night at the opening of a new club in Paris. He... is a massive jerk, and I wanted to strangle him quite a lot. But the book itself was extremely amusing and a fast-paced read, despite everyone in it being amazingly shallow and irritating. I felt that it portrayed the atmosphere well, although I am hardly an expert on clubbing so others may disagree. A lot of the events here are totally absurd and you clearly aren't meant to believe that they literally happened. While I liked it on the whole, I do have to add a warning for one scene near the end with some (to me) disturbing sexual violence: figurative or not, I didn't need to read that :s The second book is sort-of a sequel but more obviously autobiographical than the first: Marc/Frédéric continues to be annoying and pretentious but with less of the ridiculousness of the first book. I didn't really like this one as much. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of 'Windows on the World'. In 'Holiday in a Coma', Marc Marronier, a shallow, superficial, rich Parisian who works as an advertising executive, is invited by his old friend to the opening of a new nightclub called The Shitter (a satirical take on the famous Paris nightclub Les Bains Douche). Taking place over a single unforgettable night, the novel documents everything from the pit-bull bouncer on the door, to the drugs, cocktails and wannabes who frequent the club, and Marc's attempts to seduce a catwalk model - any one will do. A catalogue of degeneracy, drugs, sex and decibels, 'Holiday in a Coma' is written with a fury and passion that reflect the author's own relationship with a world and he both loves and loathes. In 'Love Lasts Three Years', Marc Maronnier has just been divorced and - shallow opportunist that he is - has decided to write a book about it. He has a theory that love lasts no more than three years, and here - recounting the highs and lows of his marriage and taking us through brash nightclubs, vainglorious offices and soulless designer apartments - he brings to bear the theoretical and the empirical to prove his point. Both frightening and funny, the book reads like a diary: sometimes tender and real, sometimes fantastical and cruel, peppered with Beigbeder's acerbic one-liners and trademark wit. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)843.914Literature French French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Holiday in a Coma: 1.5 ( )