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'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanitys dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
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It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of course, Mitchell was among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his second novel number9dreamwas shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Characters with birthmarks in the shape of comets are a motif; as are boats. Oh and one of the six narratives strands of the book--where coincidentally Robert Frobisher, a young composer, dreams up "a sextet for overlapping soloists" entitled Cloud Atlas--is set in Belgium, not far from Bruges. (See what I mean?)
Structured rather akin to a Chinese puzzle or a set of Matrioshka dolls, there are dazzling shifts in genre and voice and the stories leak into each other with incidents and people being passed on like batons in a relay race. The 19th-century journals of an American notary in the Pacific that open the novel are subsequently unearthed 80 years later on by Frobisher in the library of the ageing, syphilitic maestro he's trying to fleece. Frobisher's waspish letters to his old Cambridge crony, Rufus Sexsmith, in turn surface when Rufus, (by the 1970s a leading nuclear scientist) is murdered. A novelistic account of the journalist Luisa Rey's investigation into Rufus' death finds its way to Timothy Cavendish, a London vanity publisher with an author who has an ingenious method of silencing a snide reviewer. And in a near-dystopian Blade Runner-esque future, a genetically engineered fast food waitress sees a movie based on Cavendish's unfortunate internment in a Hull retirement home. (Cavendish himself wonders how a director called Lars might wish to tackle his plight). All this is less tricky than it sounds, only the lone "Zachary" chapter, told in Pacific Islander dialect (all "dingos'n'ravens", "brekker" and "f'llowin'"s) is an exercise in style too far. Not all the threads quite connect but nonetheless Mitchell binds them into a quite spellbinding rumination on human nature, power, oppression, race, colonialism and consumerism. --Travis Elborough --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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David Mitchell's latest offering, Cloud Atlas, is a generally brilliant and sweeping compendium of literary styles and phenomena which transcends the bounds of convention and has leaped instantly into that class of book into which i can wade, sample, taste countless times without failing to pick up some new depth, flavor, hidden tidbit. Very Pynchon, very David Foster Wallace, but at the same time very uniquely crafted, inspired, and laced with myriad brilliant intricacies.
The six sections of this massive, generally well-connected opus trace a seemingly random path across history and back again, starting and ending in a diary of the South Pacific in the 19th century and weaving only occasionally tenuous paths through composers trapped between World Wars, 70's pulp detective fiction, an absolutely jaw-dropping contemporary tale about a down-and-out publisher, an interview with a futuristic Korean clone (many ideas of which seem to have been stolen by a forthcoming Ewen MacGregor flick called The Island), and the final, middle section, a post-apocalyptic Hawaii which is the only part of the novel that seems forced and derivative. You have a diary, an epistolary novella, first person and third person and interviews and a somewhat failed attempt at coloquial postmodernism, and for the most part the connections, the separate layers of the atlas of clouds, are connected brilliantly. Naturally on the move, naturally folding in and out of one another, tying together, combinging and recombining, Mitchell's stories keep me up nights even though i already know what happens on the next page.
For those who want more than a simple yarn, for those who want to be challenged and wowed by the virtuoso prose of a cunning linguist and flawlessly crafted stories and images which paint themselves across the page, Cloud Atlas is not one to~ miss.
この本は素晴らしいです。六つのとても違うテーマの物語は六つのとても違う書き方で作ったDavid Mitchellという作家は一つの驚くべきものを作った。各文も各舞台も各物語は美しいです。何回も読んだことがあるおで、まだ読みたい。そんな本は珍しい。~
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形式:ペーパーバック
19世紀半ばの太平洋航海記から、数世紀先の未来、文明があらかた崩壊してしまった後の部族社会の冒険譚まで、独立した6種類の物語が順に連なって、１つの何か大きな物語を織りなす。しかも、各物語の中で主人公が、先行する物語を読んで、そこから何らかの影響を受けるいう、凝った構成。作者みずから、カルヴィーノの『冬の夜ひとりの旅人が』に触発されたと言っているそうだが、確かにそんな感じ。手塚治虫の『火の鳥』っぽい感触も。
統一テーマは「弱肉強食的な権力のあり方」と少々陳腐、でもこの作家一流の、スピード感溢れる文体とストーリー展開は魅力たっぷり。ただし独自の用語法や方言、文化背景的な事柄をつかむのが難しかった！ だれか翻訳出版してくれないかな。
統一テーマは「弱肉強食的な権力のあり方」と少々陳腐、でもこの作家一流の、スピード感溢れる文体とストーリー展開は魅力たっぷり。ただし独自の用語法や方言、文化背景的な事柄をつかむのが難しかった！ だれか翻訳出版してくれないかな。
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