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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cane giallo (2003)di Martin Amis
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Xan Meo es un hombre de múltiples talentos y algunos secretos. Actor, músico, escritor, y también hijo de un célebre delincuente. Una noche llega a casa, saluda a su mujer y se marcha al pub. Es verano, Xan se sienta a tomar su copa en la terraza y, al poco rato de estar allí, dos hombres le parten la cabeza a cachiporrazos. Se salvará tras una difícil convalecencia, pero será otro. Y tal como le anuncia Pearl, su áspera y combativa primera mujer, deberá acostumbrarse a su nuevo ser, y también deberán acostumbrarse todos los que le rodean. Sobre todo Russia, su actual mujer, y sus dos hijas, y también los dos hijos que tuvo con Pearl, porque el civilizado y encantador Xan dejará de ser el marido soñado y se convertirá en un antimarido, en un antipadre, en un hombre más violento, movido por impulsos primarios y con una sexualidad muy, muy perturbadora. Yellow Dog is a strange and deeply unpleasant novel where father-daughter incest is the central theme but also features tabloid journalism, pornography and the Royal Family. The main character is Xan Meo, an actor turned author, and father of two young girls, who on a night out in London to celebrate the anniversary of his first marriage's decree nisi is clubbed over the head by two assailants. Before the assault he has a normal, healthy relationship with his wife daughters but after the attack his personality changes, he attempts to rape his wife and has incestuous thoughts about his eldest daughter, four-year-old Billie. Clint Smoker, a tabloid journalist, writes for a sex-obsessed paper which appears to be based on the UK's Daily Sport called the Morning Lark and whose journalists routinely refers to its readers as "wankers". Smoker is the author of a column called "Yellow Dog", in which he states that raping 14-year-olds is fine if you've had a few drinks or they look 16, and that they're wearing school uniform counts as "provocation". When Smoker takes a trip to the US to visit the centre of the country's Californian sex industry the reader is given a long description of the evolution of various genres of sex films. Henri IX is on the throne in Britain and despite being lazy is generally popular with his subjects. One day he receives a still of his 15 year-old daughter naked in a bath taken without her knowledge, as images and a DVD are released we learn that the princess was joined in the bath by the king's Chinese concubine. The images of the naked princess are widely circulated in the Morning Lark and the king along with his closest ally, nicknamed Bugger, (the Queen being on a life support machine in a Scottish hospital after a horse riding accident) try to find the source of the footage and to protect the young princess from the fallout. There are several other smaller sub-plots, including a gangster narrative and a doomed flight, but they add little to the whole. There is some humour within this book I found if it often more cringe-worthy than funny. However what is most dislikeable is that there seems to be a suggestion that father-daughter incest is quite normal and it is what leads many women to become involved in pornography industry both of which any right-minded person would find repugnant. Whilst the Royal Family are often a favourite target for satirists this felt over-egged as is Amis's representation of the class divide. Put simply other authors have done a far better job of it. This is my third Amis novel, after Money and London Fields, and the one I disliked most. Whilst this may idea may have been OK the execution was poor. I could not stay with this one. I found the comedy much too broad for my taste, and the idiom too cryptically British. And I am one of Amis's most devoted readers, too. I love Money and London Fields. I wish I could say why the britishisms in those novels did not prove as off-putting as the ones here. Oh well, I will give it another shake someday. Let me also cast a vote here for House of Meetings. Quite wonderful. Xan Meo es un hombre de múltiples talentos: actor, músico, escritor, y también hijo de un célebre delincuente. Una noche, Xan se sienta a tomar una copa en la terraza de un pub y, al poco rato, dos hombres le parten la cabeza a cachiporrazos. Tras una difícil convalecencia será otro. Deberá acostumbrarse a su nuevo ser, como todos los que le rodean, porque Xan se convertirá en un antimarido, en un antipadre, movido por impulsos primarios y con una sexualidad muy perturbadora. Pero hay otros personajes que inciden en la vida de Xan. Clint Smoke, un periodista de un diario amarillista volcado en la pornografía y las noticias de escándalo, y también Henry England, el rey de Inglaterra y padre de la Princesita, a la que alguien ha fotografiado desnuda en su bañera. También está el misterioso Joseph Andrews, como una araña en el centro de una vasta red.
Over-written, overcrowded and underpowered, Yellow Dog is a joyless, boring long-haul flight to nowhere, and a book that leaves you wondering why, if Martin Amis can't be bothered to care about his narrative, or feel any genuine anger about the targets of his satire, then anyone else should. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiOtavan kirjasto (184) Premi e riconoscimenti
Amis's first novel since The Information: a post 9/11 comedy When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Kent Price, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of Yellow Dog. Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a readi Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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