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Bezig met laden... Jerusalem Commands (1992)door Michael Moorcock
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There are good jokes – Pyat writes to what he assumes to be Miss Evelyn Waugh, although when met ‘she was permanently dressing as a man and had grown plumply repulsive.’ But the man himself is the very model of a pub bore, the kind of man one is eager to get away from and never see again, and these are Pyat’s memoirs. Apart from the tedious ranting about being ‘the voice and conscience of civilised Europe’, which in one form or another occupies a good many of these pages, almost everything – Pyat’s love affairs, Hollywood career, Russian activities – goes on far too long. Michael Moorcock’s purpose, suppose, was to offer a picaresque view of history in the first half of this century as seen by a man, by no means a hero, shuttled from country to country. It’s a pity he chose a narrator suffering from logorrhea. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Colonel Pyat (3)
Colonel Pyat: addict, inventor and bizarre Everyman of the twentieth century. In Jerusalem Commands, the third of the Pyat Quartet, he schemes and fantasises his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage in his wake as he crashes towards an inevitable appointment with the worst nightmare this century has to offer. It is Moorcock's extraordinary achievement to convert the life of Pyatnitski into an epic and often hilariously comic adventure. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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