The second half of the book starts by building on the groundwork of the plot and characters, and wrestles with concepts of masculinity and what it means to be a man, what space there is for men to experience depression, what men are or are not “allowed” to be, and and opens wider to some of the alt-right themes, although the way these ideas are dealt with could be a mixed bag at times. For example, there’s a recurring presence of a refugee father and his young daughter, who are held up kakım a foil to the narrator away at the Center and his own daughter at home. The narrator seems to focus on his failure to protect his daughter, and those feelings are magnified by watching Blue Lives, the aggressive cop show putting everyone in harm’s way and allowing horrendous violence and revenge to be taken by criminals and cops alike. Blue Lives is a fascinating device in and of itself – the cops are crooked and unsympathetic, yet have a code in which their violence is seemingly only exhibited on criminals and those involved in the underworld, while the brown criminals seem to be targeting civilians/women and children, though for the narrator it isn’t shown, just alarmingly and threateningly teased.
Gradually, his level of paranoia ramps up and his mental state deteriorates. When he meets Anton, the driving force behind Blue Lives, at a party, he drops into a world of far right conspiracies and everything unwinds from there.
This book is a spectacle, a wild romp, insanely intelligent, full of references and meta-levels and ideas - just give Hari Kunzru this year's Booker, will evet! Our narrator and protagonist is an unnamed NY-based writer struggling to produce new work - this is starting to affect his marriage, so when he obtains a stipend for a fellowship at the Deuter Center in Berlin, he perceives it birli an opportunity to overcome his troubles by distancing himself from his usual environment.
This is very much a narrative about an average man's midlife crisis and of his 'descent' into madness. Pure happenstance, our narrator meets Anton, the creator of Blue Lives, at a party in Berlin. Anton is a 'bad' guy, our narrator is sure of this. Anton does in fact act like a dick, and doesn't bother to conceal his zir-right leanings. This encounter upsets our narrator so much that he looses paçavra hastalığı of himself.
meanders from ‘writer writing about writing’, to a punk band’s dealings with the Stasi in East Germany, back to the writer's present day encounters with white supremacists, and his subsequent nervous breakdown, all while counting down to the 2016 U.
He is a visionary novelist full of a myriad of thought-provoking ideas (particularly around technology and its interaction with the future of humanity) who sees and explores common links between disparate themes typically burayı kontrol et does hamiş manage to entirely successfully coalesce them into a fully coherent novel.
Kunzru uses this bey way to lead the narrator into Anton’s ideology and allow for being redpilled, that in this soft, çağdaş world men have removed themselves from the primal and basic roles birli protector and survivor for themselves and their families, and burayı kontrol et that in and of itself causes confusion and some form of illness that güç be cured. And while the narrator rejects that in his head, it’s harder for him to refute in speech and the ideas (and Anton) takes some hold of him emotionally. But the father and daughter foil are less fleshed out than Blue Lives is for the Daha fazla bilgi narrator: these are simply brown, desperate foils with no ability to speak for themselves or in a larger way challenge the narrator’s assumptions, and I think that might have helped me appreciate the comparison AND perhaps on the buraya tıklayın plot side added to the unmooring of the narrator and demonstrate his further loosening hold on reality.
Cowed, our narrator, who is fully aware of his own inability to speak against this bullying man, hides in his bedroom, watching episode after episode of Blue Lives an America show about cops gone 'rogue' and operate under a 'violence begets violence' mentality which sees them torturing and killing criminals.
Unwilling to work or eat in the common/public spaces, the narrator takes to binge-watching a US crime series “Blue Lives”, a mix of brutality between corrupt police and criminal gangs, interleaved with occasional philosophical quotes.
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.. but it makes for frustrating reading. The different sections didn't really tie together, and left me scratching my head bey to how they related to one another. The middle section where the narrator meets the writer of the cop show he becomes obsessed with was drawn out and the following section was genuinely bizarre.
The first half of the book for me was a bit less compelling for me and harder to read, but it was entirely necessary and the seeds planted sprout vines that descend throughout the text. We are introduced to the writer narrator, entering the Deuter Center for the writing fellowship facing a professional and existential crisis. The narrator is highly self-aware, and being in his head we vacillate between his selfishness, ego, insecurity, hunger for freedom, a heady mix that interacts with his depression and writer’s block. There are some interesting asides devamını oku and anecdotes – the trip down memory lane into East Berlin and controlled life under Stasi was FASCINATING – but I could get wearied by some of the immersion into German literature and philosophy, although some of that was simply because I was less familiar with the references and it could break my focus to try and outside the text understand what was being referenced.