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Bezig met laden... Chronolysis (1973)door Michel Jeury
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The book keeps circling some secret, which is never revealed (although many of the characters, for unfathomable reasons, end up in a kind of Utopia ''on the far side of Uncertain Time''). There is a lot of cynicism about Science and Mankind and Glory and History, and a lot of world-weariness. All of which casts a spell - up to a point. About three-quarters through the book, I stopped caring about the clouded identities, the murky symbolism, the intimations of transcendence. And it became clear that in exchanging our ''entropic universe'' for a ''chronolytic universe,'' the author was offering a modern paraphrase of Descartes's central dictum: I am bored, therefore I am. Prijzen
Chronolysis is one of the most important French SF novels of the 1970s. It deals with time and its manipulation through the use of chronolytic drugs. Its protagonists are psychronauts, helpless explorers of a confusing, multidimensional universe, facing threats from alternate realities, such as Harry Krupp Hitler 1st, Emperor of the Undetermined, or the mysterious Phords from the future world of Garichankar. They search for secret paradises, hidden within the folds of space and time, away from their bleak realities, such as the tropical realm of Oblivion-by-Ruaba. This volume also includes a foreword by Theodore Sturgeon, a biography and illustrated bibliography of Jeury and a never-before-published short story translated by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier. "Just how Jeury conveys the feeling that he knows what he is doing, that he is in charge, that you the reader are in the place in which he intends you to be, cannot be analyzed. A very small number of writers have this ability: Joseph Heller can do it; so can Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick." Theodore Sturgeon. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.914Literature French French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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