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Generazione A: romanzo (2009)

di Douglas Coupland

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Set in the near future world where all bees are extinct when 5 unconnected people from varying parts of world are each stung. Their experience unites them in ways they could not have imagined.
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I just read “Generation A” by Douglas Coupland and I’m not sure what I think of it. I’ve read most of Coupland’s books over the years, but having just finished this one I think it’s the only one I haven’t really enjoyed.

The book takes place in a not too distant future where all the bees have died or disappeared, affecting flowers and crops and things. Life for people seems not too greatly different than we have now, but things like fresh fruit are a rarity. The story follows five youngish people from different parts of the world who’ve each been stung by a bee.

The government swoops in and takes each them to a separate research facility to see what about them might’ve drawn bees that were thought to be extinct.

I started to finally get into the story at the point were each of the five was in their isolated research facility, and through their being released and getting back home.

But then researchers decide to put the five of them together in one place, where they have to make up and tell stories to one another. I didn’t enjoy most of those stories, as the characters were not written to be very good storytellers, and I don’t feel like Coupland pulled off the stories-within-the-story thing, not with interesting stories.

While I like most of Coupland’s books, this one just didn’t do it for me. ( )
1 vota KevinRubin | Mar 6, 2022 |
About as profound as a fortune cookie but immensely entertaining. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for the format of characters telling stories. Reminds me of Chucks Palahniuk's haunted. Here the stories also tie into the bigger stories and are echoes of the main story showing how storytellers draw from their own life stories to create them. ( )
  Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |
In my opinion Coupland's wackiest book - and also my favourite. I couldn't put it down and, when it was over, I felt as if I had just been to the cinema. Fantastic good fun! ( )
  GeorgeHunter | Sep 13, 2020 |
Not quite sure what the deal is with the title* but I always love me some Douglas Coupland. Lots of layers of Story-within-story like only he can do. If you haven't read any of his books, I'd suggest starting with JPod.

*This is the guy who coined the term GenX and I'd expect more respect for the naming system.

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  rickycatto | Sep 9, 2020 |
I would not bother starting this book if I were you. It starts well enough but devolves into really poor, masturbatory short stories and a mediocre tying-up of the main plot.
  brandonlee | Jun 11, 2020 |
Still, the plot of Generation A, which in another writer’s hands might gallop into geopolitical-thriller territory, plays harmony to trademark Couplandian insight: As Diana is taken away from her house, now covered in an isolation bubble, she says “For the first time in my life, the future felt futuristic”; for Julien, the sting took away a life “like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up.” It’s in these details, not the overall picture, that readers will find the generation of which Vonnegut spoke, though as with Coupland’s Generation X, it isn’t a complete portrait. An initially puzzling backdrop gives the narrative just enough momentum to nose these characters into a place where they can explore how much they have in common.
 
If Generation X gave us “tales for an accelerated culture,” then Generation A is its natural extension, offering tales for the information overloaded. The bite-sized chapters and witty tone will appeal to those with perpetual attention defi cits, and bits of pop culture sprinkled liberally throughout will attract readers highly attuned to the current zeitgeist. Coupland clearly understands the minds of the current generation – young people who have never known a time without the Internet – and plays on their desire to jump continually from one subject to the next.
 
Generation A feels like a slow-motion demonstration of the ways in which technology is destroying story, and not the enacted triumph of story over technology that Coupland so clearly wishes it to be.
aggiunto da chazzard | modificaThe Guardian, Toby Litt (Aug 29, 2009)
 
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Malcolm McLaren
"Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks away from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the begining of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago."

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