The Nightmare and the dream
Loon Lake E.L. Doctorow, Random House, 258 pages, EUR 11.95
Author E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) Author E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) was one of cultural events during the last ten years. The novel was widely rhapsodic reviews its fictional story of using these figures as Henry Ford and JP Morgan giant invited the analysis. Successful commercial accompanies criticism welcome. Paperback rights was $ 1.9 million, a record at the time, a film that was Struck, Ragtime and became a best-seller. Given that the cash register Jingle continue, although a number of letters back began filling and praised his predecessors. If Doctorow is good, the argument has, as he came, so much money? The question is false, of course, the fact that many bad books are selling well, does not mean that all are quickly remaindered. But with a little prosperity within the eyes of purists, scepticism Doctorow, Show-me public for his next work of fiction.
It is also bad, because the author of the novel claims a little patience and cooperation among readers, before their effects are beginning to bear fruit and the handle. For the spare wheel, metronomischer prose, inventive Ragtime field so accessible and entertaining. The written declaration surface Loon Lake is gekräuselte and unstable. Samples of poetry, with enough points computerese passages and mysterious disembodied excerpts from the interview. Story suddenly switches from first to third person, or vice versa, and it is not always clear, to say something. Chronology is encrypted so that the effects of certain important events are described, before the events occur. These changes are undoubtedly frustrating at first, but gradually they become hypnotic. When reading the book, finally, seems like overhearing a bit strange familiar melody.
Doctorow is, indeed, plays a variation on an old theme: the American dream on the music of a nightmare American, depression. Much of the book is the act through a single collection of characters in 1936. A group of gangsters and her friends travel to Loon Lake, 30000 hectares Adirondack withdrawal of their host country, millionaire FW Bennett. The Mob industrial service, which means in fact, espionage, strikebreaking and union dexterity game, and Bennett was more than one place, problems with workers in case of Indiana its auto-body - installation. Indiana workers at its auto-body-installation. Both sides of the business convention, swindler and head of its generous Clara minor Bennett on prices soft.
Also present at Loon Lake Bennett, Ms Lucinda, a famous aviator in the world, and Warren Penfield, a drunken poet, which it regards as animal and intimate. And a visitor arrives ungebetener: a young Hobo named Joe, Bennett’s moves on the property and is almost killed by a pack of dogs bite. As he recuperates, a young woman workers in the field of his accident, explains: “They are wild, running, these dogs. It is the fault of people, and not to feed themselves, they can not. And then they will leave and Space forage and breed wild and hunting in packs
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