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253

di Geoff Ryman

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A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you've ever met and wished you hadn't or wished you could again. 252 passengers and one driver on the London Underground. They all have their own personal histories, their own thoughts about themselves and their travelling neighbours. And they all have one page devoted to them. Some characters are tragic, some are inspiring, some are mad/proud/foolish/infuriating (delete where appropriate) and some are just like the person near you right now. You'll meet Estelle who's fallen madly in love with Saddam Hussein; James, who anaesthetises sick gorillas for a living; and Who?, a character that doesn't know where, or what, on earth he is. It's a seven-and-a-half minute journey between Embankment and the Elephant & Castle. It's the journey of 253 lifetimes... This is the full text of the celebrated interactive novel that startled the Web when it first went on line. Only it can't crash, the downloading time is quicker and you can read it on the Tube, the train, the bus,, the plane, by foot - even by car, so long as you're not driving.… (altro)
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A gimmick novel consisting of 253 short profiles of people on a tube train in London. Enough said. ( )
  TomMcGreevy | May 21, 2023 |
There are 253 passengers on a seven car Tube train that is about to crash. Every person, along with their thoughts and actions on their brief train ride (and including footnotes explaining their direct and/or indirect relationships with other people on the train), is described in exactly 253 words each.

While on the surface this may sound like nothing more than a mildly interesting experiment in constrained writing, the book manages to reach a deeper meaning than you would expect. Whether you read the book from beginning to or flip around to random parts at your leisure, the overall effect is the same; allowing you to freeze a moment in time and examine the lives and deaths of 253 people with more in common than they will ever truly realize. Contrasting and comparing their personalities and motivations affords the reader an almost God-like chance to examine the fantastic and mundane worlds of a train full of strangers as an intrinsic whole.

But don't let that scare you away. If you rather enjoy as a distraction rather than a perceptions-enhancing experience, it easily works on that level as well. No matter how you attack 253, it remains a truly unique book in both structure and subject matter, and equally enjoyable whether read in short bursts or cover to cover.
  smichaelwilson | Aug 25, 2021 |
253 no es una novela al uso. El planteamiento es simple: en la introducción, leemos que “Un tren de metro consta únicamente de siete vagones. ¿Por qué? El número parece raro. Ocho sería más redondo, más cómodo. Tal vez sea un siete para la buena suerte.

Cada uno de los vagones consta de 36 asientos, lo cual significa que la ocupación ideal de un tren que no estuviera atestado ni perturbadoramente vacío sería de 252 pasajeros, más el conductor. Esto daría un total de 253 personas.”
En una sola página, en exactamente 253 palabras, se describe a cada persona, en tres secciones: datos personales, apariencia y qué hace o piensa. Cada página es una historia. Y la historia tiene lugar en los siete minutos y medio que dura un trayecto entre las estaciones de Embankment y Elephant & Castle, de la línea de Bakerloo. Son las últimas cuatro estaciones de la línea marrón.
Tras haber acabado el libro, la sensación es extraña. ¿Me he leído una novela? ¿Me he leído un taco de fichas de personaje de un juego de rol ? Es realmente curioso. Al empezar a leer, uno piensa que se va a aburrir como una ostra. “Joé, 253 fichas hablando de 253 personas distintas, cada una con sus neuras, problemas e intenciones. Pues vaya”. Sin embargo, en cuanto nos adentramos en el segundo vagón, empezamos a descubrir las relaciones entre los pasajeros. Una persona del quinto vagón está amenazada de muerte por otra del primero, que la está siguiendo. Dos compañeros de oficina viajan en asientos diferentes del mismo vagón y aún no se han visto. Alguien ama a otra persona. Alguien es el jefe de otra persona. Alguien intenta no vomitar porque va al trabajo sin dormir tras una juerga considerable. No lo consigue. A alguien un borracho de mierda le vomita encima. Alguien se parte de risa cuando un pobre borracho no puede evitar mancharle los zapatos a una chica guapísima. El mismo hecho lo vemos a través de varias personas. Cada una lo interpreta a su manera. Es realmente curioso. A medida que vamos progresando en la lectura vamos descubriendo más y más coincidencias, por otro lado inevitables.
Personaje tras personaje capturamos una instantánea de la gente. Hay de todo. Gente feliz (los menos), gente enferma, gente preocupada, gente que ha dejado de luchar, gente que no se cosca ni del nodo, perdonen la expresión, gente que ni siquiera es gente y que se ha metido en el metro por error… Y en sus relaciones vemos que surge algo más grande que las propias descripciones, quizás el verdadero motivo de la novela.
Mención especial merece la traductora, que ha tenido que transformar un texto inglés de 253 palabras en uno en castellano con 253 palabras. ¡Y lo ha tenido que hacer 253 veces seguidas! Cualquiera que haya traducido alguna vez sabe que el castellano tiende a salir más largo que el inglés para decir lo mismo. Parafraseando a Jean-François Revel: “El inglés yuxtapone, el español subordina”. Y eso se nota, se lo garantizo. Ha debido de ser un trabajo titánico. En alguna ocasión aislada nos chirría la gramática: “Aquí debería haber un artículo”. Pero enseguida comprendemos el porqué de su ausencia, y entendemos perfectamente que no haya habido otra manera de encajar el texto en el corsé de las 253 palabras. Sin embargo, cada vez que aparece una nota al pie comienza así: “Otra últil e instructiva nota de 253″. Hubo una errata y un copiapega considerable en todas las notas al pie. O eso o yo me he perdido algo.
Al final, la experiencia es curiosa. Es como hacerle una foto telepática al metro. O algo así.
253 es la versión en papel de 253 , la página web. La ventaja de la página web frente al libro es que cada vez que alguien está relacionado con otra persona aparece un enlace que de inmediato nos lleva allá. En el libro leemos “Martha es la secretaria de John McCallaghan” (nombres al azar). Y nos suena vagamente el tal John, pero si queremos volver a él tenemos que ir al final del libro y localizar lenta y dolorosamente su número de pasajero. Porque los personajes ni siquiera están ordenados alfabéticamente, sino por lugares de trabajo o palabras clave. Hay cosas que un libro no puede hacer todavía. También hay una lista de relaciones entre personajes, en un par de páginas, pero no es lo mismo.
Resumiendo, que es un libro raro. Lo cual no quiere decir que sea malo, ni mucho menos. Mi nota: interesante. ( )
  Remocpi | Apr 22, 2020 |
253 started as a series of entries on the web, which eventually evolved into this book.

It's a clever concept; 253 passengers on a train "running headlong into destiny", 253 words describing their exterior and interior states.
As you read through the book (in whatever order you may prefer--like Cortozar's "Hopscotch") you get the feel of city living, how a place like London can still feel 'small', people's lives interconnected in ways not immediately evident.

Ryman also has a sense of the multicultural nature of London, the immigrants, the various aspects of class divisions amongst Londoners.

Excellent stuff, not quite SF or fantasy, with leanings towards experimental literature than anything else... ( )
  VladVerano | Oct 20, 2015 |
This is a totally different book than I would normally read.
Its about all the people on a Bakerloo line tube train one January morning in 1995.
Some of the people are interlinked all have a story. Some of the people are believable some arent. Very orginal book just not my cup of tea. ( )
  Daftboy1 | Mar 3, 2014 |
Is it a novel? Doubtful. Certainly not in the traditional sense. Is it worth reading? Definitely. Is it the fiction of the future? I hope not. As a one-off, it's entertaining, and even thought-provoking, but it took me a long time to read, simply because I kept setting it aside after every half-dozen or so entries to read something with a more coherent narrative. Call me old-fashioned, but I doubt I'd try another.
 
Two hundred and fifty-three people (including one befuddled pigeon) ride a London tube train heading for a crash. In 253 sketches consisting of 253 words each, Geoff Ryman provides these unwittingly doomed riders with vivid individuality, getting inside the heads of everyone from a disillusioned Punjabi dry cleaner to that pigeon with a gleeful omniscience.
 

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A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you've ever met and wished you hadn't or wished you could again. 252 passengers and one driver on the London Underground. They all have their own personal histories, their own thoughts about themselves and their travelling neighbours. And they all have one page devoted to them. Some characters are tragic, some are inspiring, some are mad/proud/foolish/infuriating (delete where appropriate) and some are just like the person near you right now. You'll meet Estelle who's fallen madly in love with Saddam Hussein; James, who anaesthetises sick gorillas for a living; and Who?, a character that doesn't know where, or what, on earth he is. It's a seven-and-a-half minute journey between Embankment and the Elephant & Castle. It's the journey of 253 lifetimes... This is the full text of the celebrated interactive novel that startled the Web when it first went on line. Only it can't crash, the downloading time is quicker and you can read it on the Tube, the train, the bus,, the plane, by foot - even by car, so long as you're not driving.

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