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Bezig met laden... Hidden Camera (Eastern European Literature) (origineel 2003; editie 2005)door Zoran Zivkovic (Auteur), Alice Copple-Tosic (Vertaler)
Informatie over het werkHidden Camera door Zoran Zivkovic (2003)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A twentieth century odyssey of a man who is obsessive, paranoid, yet capable of relating lucid details, even if they may seem not quite believable. Small details become large and inform his life. "My tropical fish are more important than anything else. . . " What we have is the anxiety of discovery and being discovered, or at least believing one is being watched. Where is that hidden camera? It leaves you on the edge and never seems to go anyplace - yet wonder is always present. ( ) In which an unassuming man receives a series of invitations to various venues, at all of which he is thrown into absurd, vaguely threatening situations of increasing angst as the night proceeds. He concludes, on insufficient evidence, that he is being used, or misused, as the subject of a prank for a hidden camera reality show, but, complaining all the way, he obediently follows directions to the next pitfall. Our narrator is somewhat beyond unreliable and has proceeded directly to delusional as he obsesses over the image he is projecting for the audience, how his manipulators are achieving their effects, and constructs elaborate backstories for the two people whom he sees at these places. The individual episodes make effective use of magic realism, yet the novel seemed to be building to a climax which never came; the quiet, thoughtful ending seemed quite underwhelming. A neurotic undertaker finds himself compelled to take part in a bizarre scavenger hunt tailored entirely to him. If you enjoy post-modern, existential suspense, this book may keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Every twist and turn of this labyrinth is completely unpredictable, and yet Zivkovic masterfully pulls off an escape for the hero in the end. Sort of! - Adam geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there's only one other person in the audience, a very attractive woman whom he's seated next to. Then things get a bit more mysterious. The movie he's been invited to see includes a scene showing him sitting in a park. Believing that he's an unwitting participant in a complicated hidden camera show, he goes along with the variety of setups he's faced with, which continue to get more involved and absurd. As the show develops, he becomes more and more paranoid and distrustful, but he keeps up the ruse to its thrilling conclusion. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)891.8236Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Serbo-Croatian Fiction 1991–LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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