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S'està carregant… Travels in Nihilonde Alan Sillitoe
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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. This is not my favourite Sillitoe book. The author attempts humour in dealing with a nihilistic Balkan state. the concept of compiling a guidebook to such an area leads to a great deal of asides on the popular political memes of the time. ( ) This book seems to have fallen into complete obscurity and I don't suppose it will be back in print any time soon. This is as different a book from the works Alan Sillitoe is famous for as anything you could imagine. It's a comic dystopian novel about Nihilon, a country of state-regulated lawlessness, of , in fact, nihilism. Nihilon is a Balkan-like totalitarian state where anarchy and revolution are compulsory for all citizens. Very few tourists ever come back from Nihilon, and none come back sane. Five writers are dispatched to the country, travelling by different routes, and charged with compiling a guidebook to the country. We follow their individual adventures as they inadvertently cause chaos and somehow find themselves caught up in the anti-Nihilonism revolution. Although there are some really good passages, and some inspired satire of 1970s idealistic totalitarianism, the book doesn't really flow, the structure doesn't work until the last 50 pages when the protagonists come together, and some of the writing seems really awkward and disjointed, to me. Having said that, and for all it's faults, this not a boring book, and I'm going to seek out more 'non-Nottingham' Sillitoe. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather information--but find themselves swept up by a nation turned upside down. As they navigate their way to the capital through artificial mist created by President Nil to disorient his people, the writers are stopped by ordinary citizens whom they quickly discover cannot be trusted. Adam accidentally starts a ground war, Benjamin is forced to buy a car, and Jaquiline discovers that robbery is not only legal, but encouraged. The researchers, who arrived as tourists, will find that although it is easy to enter Nihilon, it is much, much harder to escape. Alan Sillitoe, the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, crosses into uncharted territory in this comic dystopia that is as smart as it is engrossing. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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