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Cargando... A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010 original; edición 2010)por Jennifer Egan
Información de la obraA Visit from the Goon Squad por Jennifer Egan (2010)
  
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 It is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but something in between: a series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives, whose individual voices combine to a create a symphonic work that uses its interconnected form to explore ideas about human interconnectedness. This is a difficult book to summarise, but a delight to read, gradually distilling a medley out of its polyphonic, sometimes deliberately cacophonous voices. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha and her boss, rising music producer Bennie Salazar, before flashing back, with Bennie, to the glory days of Bay Area punk rock, and eventually forward, with Sasha, to a settled life. By then, Egan has accrued tertiary characters, like Scotty Hausmann, Bennie's one-time bandmate who all but dropped out of society, and Alex, who goes on a date with Sasha and later witnesses the future of the music industry. Egan's overarching concerns are about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, and lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn. Or as one character asks, How did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Egan answers the question elegantly, though not straight on, as this powerful novel chronicles how and why we change, even as the song stays the same. Jennifer Egan’s new novel is a moving humanistic saga, an enormous nineteenth-century-style epic brilliantly disguised as ironic postmodern pastiche. It has thirteen chapters, each an accomplished short story in its own right; characters who meander in and out of these chapters, brushing up against one another’s lives in unexpected ways; a time frame that runs from 1979 to the near, but still sci-fi, future; jolting shifts in time and points of view—first person, second person, third person, Powerpoint person; and a social background of careless and brutal sex, careless and brutal drugs, and carefully brutal punk rock. All of this might be expected to depict the broken, alienated angst of modern life as viewed through the postmodern lens of broken, alienated irony. Instead, Egan gives us a great, gasping, sighing, breathing whole. Although shredded with loss, “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is often darkly, rippingly funny. Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart. If Jennifer Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. Her new novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," is a medley of voices -- in first, second and third person -- scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page PowerPoint presentation reproduced toward the end. I know that sounds like the headache-inducing, aren't-I-brilliant tedium that sends readers running to nonfiction, but Egan uses all these stylistic and formal shenanigans to produce a deeply humane story about growing up and growing old in a culture corroded by technology and marketing. And what's best, every movement of this symphony of boomer life plays out through the modern music scene, a white-knuckle trajectory of cool, from punk to junk to whatever might lie beyond. My only complaint is that "A Visit From the Goon Squad" doesn't come with a CD. Pertenece a las seriesGoon Squad (1) Pertenece a las series editorialesKeltainen kirjasto (432) Keltainen pokkari (60) PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Un retrato tragicmico y nostlgico de la industria musical estadounidense desde los aos sesenta hasta hoy. Premio PulitzerGanadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la dcada por la revista Time, esta novela est compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discogrfico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problemtica asistente. Una historia generacional con mltiples cadas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los aos setenta hasta el hasto de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S.Con la msica palpitando en cada pgina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologa en las personas, as como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas.La crtica ha dicho: Una magistral novela en la que Egan cuenta, jugando con el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, una adictiva historia sobre las derivas e implicaciones del mundo digital, la tecnologa y las redes.InformacinUna novela rica e inolvidable sobre la decadencia y la resistencia, sobre individuos en un mundoque cambia a su alrededor... [Egan] es una de las escritoras con ms talento de la actualidad.The New York Review of BooksUna muestra del extremo virtuosismo de Egan.The New York TimesEgan se merece todos los elogios: su libro es una curiosa y muy lograda combinacin de realismo convencional y experimentacin con la forma. Edmundo Paz Soldn, El PasFiccin de la ms alta calidad. [...] Conmovedora. [...] Una lectura obligada.The Sunday TimesUna novela juguetona a la vez que seria, compleja a la vez que directa. [...] Una de las prosas ms efervescentes del momento.The Daily TelegraphUna gran obra, valiente y arriesgada.ScotsmanSalvajemente ambiciosa. [...] Un tour de force [...]. La msica es a la vez tema y metfora cuando Egan explora la mutabilidad del tiempo, el destino y la responsabilidad individual sobre la tecnologa.O, The Oprah MagazineEl libro de Egan es una muestra de diferentes pocas (los das de gloria del punk; un futuro socialmente interconectado) y estilos (stira astuta, tragedia conmovedora, incluso PowerPoint) para explorar la interaccin entre la msica y los duros ritmos de la vida.VogueMs all de todas sus florituras posmodernas, El tiempo es un canalla es tan tradicional como una novela de Dickens [...]. El objetivo [de Egan] no es tanto explotar la narrativa tradicional como explorar cmo responde a las oportunidades de presin de la era digital.Newsweek No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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