Mountains oceans giants
a novel of the 27th century
Autor*in: Döblin, Alfred
Jahr: 2021
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 700 S.
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- Inhalt:
- The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? - by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland's volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred Döblin - he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree - became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: 'I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross.' Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose - supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing - propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Mountains oceans giants
Autor*in: Döblin, Alfred
Übersetzer*in: Godwin, Christopher
Verlag: Galileo
ISBN: 9781912916245
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen, Gesellschaft & Politik
Dateigröße: 855 KB
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 14 Tage