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Chargement... Kafka's Hatpar Patrice Martin
Inspired by Kafka (15) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Lured by the title, I took the bait and was helpless while following along with the character P. amid scenarios that were both amusing and ridiculous, though slightly implausible. Literary references abound, which are irrestistible. This book was reminscent of another book by a famous American author (who shall remain nameless). Enjoyable short read. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Kafka's hat pulls out all the post-modern tricks, but they fall flat and seem more like exercises in a writing class than real explorations of post-modern playfulness. It's a quick read if you are looking for something relatively amusing and enjoy post-modernism, but I can't fully recommend it. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I am a fan of Talon Books for sure. And this one does not disappoint. I just want to write a quick comment.The title and first section of KAFKA's HAT feels very much like a derivative CASTLE where or TRIAL where the main character walks in and gets lost in absurd paradoxes of expectations and bureaucracies. Except, where Kafka focuses on buildings, laws and customs, Bilodeau turns toward the psychological state of the main character who has been asked to go to a certain building and grab a hat once owned by a famous author named... After this section, which is already quite entertaining, the books then turns on itself a fabricates a story about the story being told ion the first part and a weird death that happens as the story is disseminated into the future. It starts to feel like a Paul Auster story in a way. Good book. Very much a short, enjoyable book in the postmodern vein. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. Obviously I picked it up hoping it'd bear some positive resemblance to Kafka but instead of subtle exasperation with an incomprehensible world I got manic postmodern narration that came across as trying way too hard. I did like the merging storylines but the blatant in-your-face influential writers as characters felt like a name-dropping gimmick rather than fleshed out creations. I related to P.'s constant attempts to prepare for his circumstances and do the right thing for his employer no matter how ridiculous that became. I felt his anxiety. I just wish it hadn't all been so forced. And I suppose it is pretty dangerous ground for an author to lump himself in with the greats right out of the gate. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In Patrice Martin's ticklish tip of the hat to the writing of Franz Kafka, we follow the misadventures of a bureaucrat - aptly named "P." (pun intended) - as he embarks on the illustrious task of collecting the titular headgear. "P." expects that the accomplishment of this seemingly simple task will grant him both a professional and a personal promotion. But Martin's eager protagonist has overlooked the systematic difficulty in modern bureaucracies - as well as in some of twentieth-century's best fiction - of getting things done. And so Kafka's hat is increasingly unreachable: express elevators get stuck between floors, rooms full of suitcases must be searched, unsympathetic bureaucrats must be confronted, and then there's the rather unanticipated discovery of a fresh cadaver in the library ... Naturally, "P." knows that every hero has his coming-of-age trial to go through; trouble is, he's no modern Ulysses. Never departing in tone and timbre from a somewhat amicable and farcical, obstinately absurd storytelling style, Kafka's Hat assembles a pleasant labyrinth of intertextual references, which make room for the diverse imaginary worlds of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Paul Auster. Living in a different city, wearing new clothes, but still immersed in the part-tragic and part-comical ambience of Franz Kafka's best existentialist literature, Patrice Martin's "P." is the compelling alter ego of a not-so-distant "Joseph K." - still contemporary, still relevant. Invoking some of modern literature's most meaningful authors, Martin's prose playfully reminds us that we do not create new work without reintroducing past fictions inside our present desires. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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