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Chargement... The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainmentpar Dave Eggers
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I picked this up solely because it was written by Dave Eggers. I didn't so much as glance at the publisher's blurb. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered quickly that it is a totally transparent satire of the Trump administration and the horrible damage he/it did to our country and the world. Dare I hope that anyone might rethink their allegiance to MAGA politics by reading this “The Emperor's New Clothes”-style tale? It has become a truism that, in the age of Trump and Brexit, satire is dead. This disappointing novel by a brilliant author can serve as supporting evidence. (I'd argue that The Cockroach by the perhaps even more brilliant Ian McEwan is even more disappointing - though no doubt I missed some things about U.K. politics). It's a sharply written and savage parable of the Trump administration, as noted in the adoring blurbs by literary and political notables on the dust jacket. But well-written as it is, it doesn't add anything much to our understanding of Trump and Trumpism, and struggles to compete with the corruption and absurdity of the genuine article. Der eine Kapitän geht von Bord und in seinen Ruhestand, der nächste Kapitän kommt. Leider hat er Neue von nichts eine Ahnung, dafür aber schwört er, alles besser machen zu wollen als sein Vorgänger. Mit seinen Vertrauten, den Upskirt Boys, bringt er Mannschaft und Passagiere mächtig durcheinander und wehe, man ist nicht seiner Meinung, dann wird es für denjenigen nass, sehr nass. So läuft das bis eines Tages ein Pirat an Bord kommt. Gewisse Ähnlichkeiten sind absolut beabsichtigt. Das Buch ist sehr unterhaltsam und liest sich flott weg. Man amüsiert sich prächtig und doch ist da etwas, dass einem Magenprobleme bereitet. Der Kapitän hat keine Ahnung von Navigation, weiß nichts über Seerecht und auch sonst nicht viel. Doch er ist von sich überzeugt. Ist er nicht stattlich und hat er nicht geniale Visionen? Sein Selbstbewusstsein ist unermesslich und die gelbe Feder schmückt ihn obendrein ganz ungemein. Regeln gelten für ihn nicht, er lügt wie gedruckt und wer nicht seiner Meinung ist, landet unversehens im Meer. Treffsicher beschreibt Dave Eggers nicht nur den „größten Kapitän aller Zeiten“, sondern auch alle anderen an Bord. Der „Helle“ bringt dann eine ungeahnte Wendung, die folgenschwere Auswirkungen haben. Mir hat dieser satirische Kurzroman gut gefallen. Er unterhält und stimmt einen nachdenklich zugleich.
A boorish ignoramus takes command of a noble vessel and heads full speed ahead into chaos. Yes, it’s an allegory. Eggers has developed an affinity for fablelike tales that sound alarms about global economics (A Hologram for the King, 2012), technology (The Circle, 2013), and authoritarianism (The Parade, 2019). This shallow, needless Trump parable is the worst of them. That’s mainly because the metaphorical veneer is so thin it all but renders the book unnecessary....Anybody who needs the Trump administration explained to them in lightly fictionalized, fifth grade–primer prose is probably beyond Eggers’ help. But there’s little to appeal to anybody else: The deliberately simple, would-be comic style softens the dangers Eggers means to call out, and his concluding messages about how to right the ship are cloying. (“First, dignity.”) An ill-advised take on "The Emperor's New Clothes" that's limp when it isn't condescending. What purpose does all this serve? After numerous insider accounts of Trump’s White House antics and as the impeachment proceedings rumble on, Eggers’ novella reads less like the biting satire it hopes to be and more like a quick primer on Trump’s presidency so far, albeit one wrapped in a thin veneer of fiction ... the book fails to be more troubling, more shocking than the world as it already is. In our hyper-satirical age, Eggers’ proposal is just too modest. Appartient à la série éditorialeGallimard, Folio (6859)
"When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills his passengers, writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria wipe-away board, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing overboard anyone who displeases him. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looked without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon... Absurd, hilarious, and all too recognizable, The Captain and the Glory is a wicked farce of contemporary America only Dave Eggers could dream up."--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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