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Cargando... The Raw Shark Texts: A Novelpor Steven Hall
  
 Isabeles71 | Jul 31, 2009 | 
 The Raw Shark Texts manages to reach the loftiest goal of speculative fiction: making its outlandish situations illuminate real human emotion. When the second Sanderson begins to share his previous incarnation's affecting grief over his lost love Clio, the concept of a memory-eating shark takes on additional layers of significance. Comparisons with The Matrix, Fight Club and Memento have been thrown around, and it's telling that all these action-thrillers were on the big screen. The prose is often self-important and less brilliant than the situations it describes, and many of the story elements dogmatically adhere to Hollywood conventions. But Hall borrows a number of effective techniques from film. A metaphysical book such as this easily could have become dense and inaccessible, but Hall's unrelenting focus on visual storytelling keeps it lucid. The book fully succeeds in exploring the tenuous hold we have on our sense of self, which is, after all, only "a concept wrapped in skin and chemicals."  The rest of Hall's ambitiously conceived but irritatingly self-serious novel concerns Sanderson's "Jaws"-like quest to put an end to the shark before it eats him, punctuated by a stock romantic plot and pictorial games that include a flip-book shark attack. Oddly, given all the textual high jinks, Hall's weakness for ending chapters on cliffhangers suggests that his book may actually wish it were a film.  Quirky even for metafiction--the novel includes abstract diagrams and flipbooks--Hall's debut can be confusing. But when he hits his stride, particularly during a climactic manversus-shark chase on the high seas, Texts is exhilarating. B+ Though Hall's prose is flabby and the plethora of text-based sight gags don't always work (a 50-page flipbook of a swimming shark, for instance), the end result is a fast-moving cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen. First things first, stay calm." So reads a cryptic letter early in The Raw Shark Texts, but it's difficult not to get worked up by Steven Hall's dizzying debut novel. Already the object of a bidding war among filmmakers, the book grabs readers with a series of set-ups reminiscent of everything from Jaws to Memento.
This genre-bending national bestseller is "a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up, drawing comparisons to Borges, The Matrix and Jaws" (The New York Times Magazine). Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house he doesn't recognize, unable to remember anything of his life. A note instructs him to call a Dr. Randle, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of memory loss, and that for the last two years--since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while vacationing in Greece--he's been suffering from an acute dissociative disorder. But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. With the help of allies found on the fringes of society, Eric embarks on an edge-of-your-seat journey to uncover the truth about himself and escape the predatory forces that threaten to consume him. Moving with the pace and momentum of a superb thriller, exploring ideas about language and information, as well as identity, this is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love. "Paced like a thriller, it reads like a deluge . . . Herman Melville meets Michael Crichton, or Thomas Pynchon meets Douglas Adams." --San Francisco Chronicle "Rousingly inventive." --The Washington Post "Unforgettable fiction." --Playboy "A thriller that will haunt you." --GQ "Sharp and clear . . . Writing on the edge of the form." --Los Angeles Times "Huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it." --Audrey Niffenegger, international-bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife "Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent." --Toby Litt No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Rompecabezas filosófico, thriller psicológico, innovadora mezcla de realismo, fantasía, apasionante aventura, este es un libro que se resiste a ser etiquetado. Explosivo debut de Steven Hall, joven autor británico formado como artista visual, la novela se sitúa en la vanguardia más innovadora de las letras inglesas en la actualidad. Eric Sanderson, un joven narrador amnésico. se enfrenta a la tarea de recomponer su pasado a partir de reuniones diarias con una psicóloga y de la lectura de las cartas que aparentemente se escribió a sí mismo antes de perder la memoria. La doctora Randle le comunica que padece un trastorno de disociación provocado por la muerte de su novia en un accidente de buceo en islas griegas. Cuando, desobedeciendo los consejo de la doctora, Eric Sanderson empieza a indagar sobre su pasado, deberá hacer frente a una extraña criatura conceptual, un ludoviciano, un agresivo tiburón que le persigue para devorarle la memoria. (