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David Ohle

Motorman Copertina flessibile – 30 gennaio 2004

Edizione Inglese di David Ohle (Autore)

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Fiction. "It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good could go out of print so quickly. And it is most curious that an introduction would even be required for a novel that, if you examine it carefully in the right kind oflight, might actually be seen to be steaming. MOTORMAN is a central work, pulsing with mythology, created by a craftsman of language who was seemingly channeling the history of narrative when he wrote it. It is a book about the future that comes from the past, and we are caught in its amazing middle. To read MOTORMAN now is to encouter proof that a book can be both emotional and eccentric, smeared with humanity and artistically ambitious, messy with grief and dazzling with spectacle"--Ben Marcus, from his introduction.

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Inglese
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Calamari Pr
Data di pubblicazione

30 gennaio 2004
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14.61 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
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9780970942821
ISBN-13

978-0970942821
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0970942826
Editore ‏ : ‎ Calamari Pr (30 gennaio 2004)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780970942821
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0970942821
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 408 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 14.61 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm

Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 97,795 in Narrativa contemporanea (Libri)
- n. 128,205 in Narrativa letteraria
- n. 334,160 in Narrativa di genere

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gonzobrarian

a fantastic realism

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 4 gennaio 2010

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Somewhere between Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Cormac McCarthy's darker roads is situated the powerfully bizarre and intriguing Motorman, written by David Ohle. It's not a new work, but it has generated a consistent buzz in terms of the ever popular dystopia-themed literature. It's a short offering that provides only glimpses into an utterly improbable world that's actually quite fathomable when framed from a sense of despairing fabulism. It's concerns the flight of a character named Moldenke away from a series of meaningless activities in Texaco City to a safe-haven away from the omniscience of one ever-present Mr. Bunce. More than his flight though, Motorman is about a vision of a future, or perhaps a dream, in which our conception of time, survival and humanity is greatly accelerated and/or extended. With the appearance of multiple suns and moons (invented or otherwise) along rapidly moving calendars, it is either a cosmic time-shift or mild concussion upon which the reader must decipher and refocus. That, along with the buzzing and fluttering of one's numerous implanted hearts, especially upon an ubiquitous onrush of mindless jellyheads. Ohle doesn't provide many answers, but he does depict fragments of a life under continual decay amid continual surveillance. Ohle writes his chapters briefly, often corresponding between characters as if in the middle of a war, though eerily the setting is oddly quiet throughout. As such, Motorman is a hazy, prescient and disturbing work that bridges our dreams to a fantastic reality.

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Patrick C.

A Dark and Cerebral Novel that Teeters on the Edge of Brilliant Poetry

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 1 dicembre 2016

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If you are looking for a driven novel with defined characters and in-depth plot development, this is NOT the story for you. If you are looking for a dark and cerebral novel that teeters on the edge of brilliant poetry, then look no further. Ohle's writing style is very unique and disjointed, and supports a sense of chaos that exists within the world of 'Motorman', however it does not deter from the story. I wouldn't say the author's prose provoked anything visceral, but it did open my mind to dark, forbidden, and whimsical thoughts.

'Motorman' is a quick read which did not disappoint.

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A diversion, nothing more

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 19 ottobre 2015

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This is an interesting little book, and is reasonably accessible for experimental literature. But despite all the claims regarding the originality of the writing and the narrative style (the book was published first in the early '70s), I thought both style and form of this nature had been developed much earlier -- particularly in early Soviet literature (I'm thinking Kharms and Vvedenev in particular), and in early surrealist literature (I found myself repeatedly comparing this book to Hugo Ball's "Tenderenda the Phantast"). (And of course, lots of the critical literature sees echoes in "Motorman" of Kafka -- which may be true of subject-matter, but seemed less so of technique). Probably "surrealist" is the best adjective to apply to "Motorman". So, to me, Ohle was just using surrealist methods that had already been kicking around for about 50 years. And I didn't find that his application of surrealist technique to the modern condition (i.e., of the '60s and '70s) offered up very much in the way of insight, either about how the world had changed in the intervening 50 years, nor about surrealism itself. The book could have been written decades previously, and would not have been out of place. Rather than finding it shockingly original, therefore, I actually found it almost nostalgic, even antiquated. It's an interesting diversion, a quaint artifact -- but not revolutionary, and not particularly interesting or enlightening in the end.

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J.M.F.

Kafka's K trapped in Burroughs Interzone

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Equal parts a straight narrative of a surreal dystopian future and a goofball absurdist episotolary novel, this is the story of Moldenke, an essentially wounded, malformed and sick person, trying to start, complete, a journey against the overwhelming powers of an overlord imagination that feeds the mock world, imaginary weather and fake persona that surround him. Can he finally meet up again with Cock Roberta, his beloved? Can he reach a destination that will make him whole and well again? Or will he be forever trapped in the Escherian, surrealist universe of repetitions that inisist in keeping him grounded and incomplete, forever sabotaged by forces greater than himself.

Good book, bear with it until page 80, at which point it starts to coalesce. Not better than Crawford's the Log of the SS the Mrs. Unguentine, as suggested elsewhere. Not a masterpiece, and will not set you on fire, as the Introduction hyperbolically suggests. But well worth the read. Grade A imaginative writing.

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