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L'ultimo degli uomini (2003)

di Margaret Atwood

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Serie: MaddAddam Trilogy (1)

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Snowman vive su un albero vicino al mare, avvolto in un lenzuolo sporco. Non sa che ore sono, nessuno lo sa pi©£, dopo la pandemia. Cerca cibo e medicine nelle terre desolate e infestate da ibridi di animali. Fruga fra i resti e rimugina sulle scelte che hanno portato la Terra al tracollo, in nome di una scienza onnipotente. Si abbandona al ricordo di Oryx, donna enigmatica e quieta, e al rancore per l'amico Crake, responsabile del disastro. Le loro esistenze si erano intrecciate nel pi©£ classico e tragico dei triangoli. Snowman cerca una spiegazione, per s©♭ e per i ℗±figli di Crake℗ ,unica forma di vita intelligente sopravvissuta sulla Terra, frutto esemplare dell'ingegneria genetica. Sono tante le cose che vogliono capire, ignari come sono dell'insensatezza degli uomini. Come hanno dimostrato Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut e la stessa Atwood (nel Racconto dell'Ancella),la rappresentazione letteraria di un'utopia fallita pu©ø aprirci gli occhi pi©£ di innumerevoli verit© sullo stato del pianeta. Quello di Oryx e Crake ©· un mondo che potrebbe essere a pochi anni, a poche folli decisioni di distanza da quello in cui viviamo.… (altro)
  1. 281
    Il mondo nuovo / Ritorno al mondo nuovo di Aldous Huxley (daby)
  2. 232
    Fahrenheit 451 di Ray Bradbury (andja)
  3. 211
    Il racconto dell'ancella di Margaret Atwood (smiteme)
  4. 203
    L'anno del diluvio di Margaret Atwood (haeji, lahni)
  5. 195
    La strada di Cormac McCarthy (goodiegoodie)
  6. 151
    Non lasciarmi di Kazuo Ishiguro (readerbabe1984)
  7. 154
    Il signore delle mosche di William Golding (PghDragonMan)
  8. 112
    L'ombra dello scorpione di Stephen King (PghDragonMan)
    PghDragonMan: What happens when the experiment is unleashed?
  9. 91
    Un cantico per Leibowitz di Walter M. Miller Jr. (Oct326, goodiegoodie)
    Oct326: Both post-apocalyptic novels, Atwood's one is satyric and sarcastic, and skilfully projects some trends of current society in a not-too-far future, suggesting that they can lead us to catastrophe; while Miller's one is very sad, even tragic, deeply pessimistic about humanity, which it describes as inherently stupid and evil, and inevitably bound to repeat its mistakes and destroy itself.… (altro)
  10. 70
    1984 di George Orwell (Valari2)
    Valari2: It's another take of where the future might take us.
  11. 60
    L'isola del dottor Moreau di H. G. Wells (mcenroeucsb)
  12. 50
    Noi di Yevgeny Zamyatin (themephi)
  13. 30
    Memory of Water di Emmi Itäranta (amsee)
  14. 41
    L'altro inizio di Margaret Atwood (Philosofiction)
  15. 31
    ˆI ‰sopravvissuti di Julianna Baggott (eenerd)
  16. 20
    Make Room! Make Room! di Harry Harrison (schmindie_kid)
  17. 21
    The Testament of Jessie Lamb di Jane Rogers (wonderlake)
  18. 10
    Far North di Marcel Theroux (julie10reads)
  19. 10
    I figli degli uomini di P. D. James (sturlington)
  20. 11
    Spin di Robert Charles Wilson (limerts)
    limerts: A common theme of humanity destroying itself.

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I finished this book in under 5 hours, it was amazing and completely absorbing and this wasn't even the first time I've read it. It's such a scary realistic view of what our future could be. I loved it. ( )
  Linyarai | Mar 6, 2024 |
It seems like it took forever to finish this book. I've only read one other book by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), so I decided to check out some more of her writings. I was very disappointed in this one. I thought it was poorly written & the ending was just terrible. ( )
  thatnerd | Mar 2, 2024 |
Quite Brilliant. Horrifying at times. Bleak as well, but well developed. A great read. ( )
  DavidRFWarner | Feb 9, 2024 |
(2004) Thought I would try another one by this author. Big mistake. I got the feeling as I slogged thru to the end that all this was for was to set up sequel(s). Constant character development and no plot. Where was this going. Disappointed.KIRKUS REVIEWEnvironmental unconcern, genetic engineering, and bioterrorism have created the hollowed-out, haunted future world of Atwood's ingenious and disturbing 11th novel, bearing several resemblances to The Handmaid's Tale (1985).Protagonist Jimmy, a.k.a. ?Snowman,? is perhaps the only living ?remnant? (i.e., human unaltered by science) in a devastated lunar landscape where he lives by his remaining wits, scavenges for flotsam surviving from past civilizations, dodges man-eating mutant predators, and remembers. In an equally dark parallel narrative, Atwood traces Jimmy's personal history, beginning with a bonfire in which diseased livestock are incinerated, observed by five-year-old Jimmy and his father, a ?genographer? employed by, first, OrganInc Farms, then, the sinister Helthwyzer Corporation. One staggering invention follows another, as Jimmy mourns the departure of his mother (a former microbiologist who clearly foresaw the Armageddon her colleagues were building), goes through intensive schooling with his brilliant best friend Glenn (who renames himself Crake), and enjoys such lurid titillations as computer games that simulate catastrophe and global conflict (e.g., ?Extinctathon,? ?Kwiktime Osama?) and Web sites featuring popular atrocities (e.g., ?hedsoff.com?). Surfing a kiddie-porn site, Jimmy encounters the poignant figure of Oryx, a Southeast Asian girl apprenticed (i.e., sold) to a con-man, then a sex-seller (in sequences as scary and revolting as anything in contemporary fiction). Oryx will inhabit Jimmy's imagination forever, as will the perverse genius Crake, who rises from the prestigious Watson-Crick Institute to a position of literally awesome power at the RejoovenEsense Compound, where he works on a formula for immortality, creates artificial humans (the ?Children of Crake?), and helps produce the virus that's pirated and used to start a plague that effectively decimates the world's population. And Atwood (The Blind Assassin, 2000, etc.) brings it all together in a stunning surprise climax.A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, and Russian revolutionary Zamyatin's We. Atwood has surpassed herself.Pub Date: May 6th, 2003ISBN: 0-385-50385-7Page count: 400ppPublisher: Talese/DoubledayReview Posted Online: May 20th, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15th, 2003
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Ok at best. Slow moving, confusing, depressing, depraved. Just don't get her. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Oryx and Crake is a piece of dystopian fiction written from the point of Snowman (known as Jimmy in his former life) – the last human left on Earth. At least, he believes he’s the last human left on Earth until the end of the book.

I found the parts of the book describing Snowman’s journey to Paradice (the dome in the compound where Crake did his work) to be a lot less interesting than his recollections of his previous life as Jimmy. I loved reading about how Jimmy and Crake met, the little signs that Crake gave off as to what he might be planning and the direction his thoughts might take in the future (though Jimmy didn’t recognize these until it was too late), etc.

Crake is really the star of the show in this book in my mind – Jimmy simply acts as a vessel for us to learn about a character who is dead and who therefore cannot teach us about himself.

Snowman’s adventures in real time seem almost pointless to me. Why not dedicate the whole book to Jimmy’s friendship with Crake, with just a bit of general explanation as to what’s going on now? I think the present would have been much more interesting if the Crakers were explored more than Jimmy’s struggle to survive and come to grips with what Crake had done.

On the whole, however, I thought it was a great book.
 
Set sometime in the future, this post-apocalyptic novel takes scientific research in the hands of madmen to its logical and frightening conclusion. Inspiring readers to pay more attention to the world around them, Atwood offers cautionary notes about the environment, bioengineering, the sacrifice of civil liberties, and the possible loss of those human values which make life more than just a physical experience. As the novel opens, some catastrophe has occurred, effectively wiping out human life. Only one lonely survivor and a handful of genetically altered humanoids remain, and they are slowly starving as they try to adjust to their changed circumstances.
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaMostly Fiction, Mary Whipple (May 28, 2004)
 
In Margaret Atwood's first attempt at writing a novel, the main character was an ant swept downriver on a raft. She abandoned that book after the opening scene and became caught up in other activities, which she has described as ''sissy stuff like knitting and dresses and stuffed bunnies.'' That certainly does not sound like Ms. Atwood, who is known for the boldness of her fiction. Of course she was only 7 at the time.
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaNew York Times, Mel Gussow (Jun 24, 2003)
 
Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took pains to fire off several novels in a row featuring weak, manipulative, dishonest and outright bad women, partly to prove that her skepticism was distributed fairly. She has always been of the opinion that people are a mixed bag of the occasionally decent and the frequently mendacious and that there's not much anyone can do to change that fact.
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaSalon.com, Laura Miller (May 27, 2003)
 
Genetic tinkering. Rampant profiteering. A deadly virus that sweeps the globe. Are these last Tuesday's headlines or our future?

In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, the answer is both. For Atwood, our future is the catastrophic sum of our oversights. It's a depressing view, saved only by Atwood's biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling.
aggiunto da stephmo | modificaUSA Today, Jackie Pray (May 26, 2003)
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Atwood, Margaretautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Chancer, JohnNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Davids, TinkeTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Drews, KristiinaTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Richardson, C.S.Progetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Scott, CampbellNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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“I am not my childhood,” Snowman says out loud. — 4: Hammer ~ 68
“Your friend is intellectually honorable,” Jimmy’s mother would say. “He doesn’t lie to himself.”
— 4: Crake ~ 69
“Jimmy, Jimmy,” said Crake. “Not everything has a point.” — 4: Crake ~ 70
If he wants to be an asshole it’s a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
— 4: Crake ~ 72
When did the body first set out on its own adventures? Snowman thinks; after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul, for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel or else a puppet acting out their dramas for them, or else bad company, leading the other two astray. — 4: Brainfrizz ~ 85
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Snowman vive su un albero vicino al mare, avvolto in un lenzuolo sporco. Non sa che ore sono, nessuno lo sa pi©£, dopo la pandemia. Cerca cibo e medicine nelle terre desolate e infestate da ibridi di animali. Fruga fra i resti e rimugina sulle scelte che hanno portato la Terra al tracollo, in nome di una scienza onnipotente. Si abbandona al ricordo di Oryx, donna enigmatica e quieta, e al rancore per l'amico Crake, responsabile del disastro. Le loro esistenze si erano intrecciate nel pi©£ classico e tragico dei triangoli. Snowman cerca una spiegazione, per s©♭ e per i ℗±figli di Crake℗ ,unica forma di vita intelligente sopravvissuta sulla Terra, frutto esemplare dell'ingegneria genetica. Sono tante le cose che vogliono capire, ignari come sono dell'insensatezza degli uomini. Come hanno dimostrato Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut e la stessa Atwood (nel Racconto dell'Ancella),la rappresentazione letteraria di un'utopia fallita pu©ø aprirci gli occhi pi©£ di innumerevoli verit© sullo stato del pianeta. Quello di Oryx e Crake ©· un mondo che potrebbe essere a pochi anni, a poche folli decisioni di distanza da quello in cui viviamo.

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