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Traveller Of The Century (2009)

by Andrés Neuman(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1906548668 (ISBN13: 9781906548667)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Pushkin Press

review 1: What is actually quite a frustrating, occasionally boring and cringeworthy novel is ruined by an excess of plot. The central romance which runs through the novel scarcely feels as romantic as it wishes, far too much pliancy to the lead character's wishes and intents makes Sophie, the lovee interest a thin phantom.Where the novel is interests it points to the ferment of intellectual debate and frisson of cultures as they intersect throughout a partical period in wotld history before the result (us) is foreclosed. Neuman displays a skill for this crooked effect of seeing history through another knack. Unfortunately it is the characters - not the history and debate - he focuses his attention prove ultimately lacking in winning our curiosity.
review 2: "When I was ... moreyoung I was afraid to travel. I thought it might lead me astray. I thought it might lead me into thinking my life was different, but that this illusion would last only as long as I went on traveling."Majestic. A mixture of many of the things I love about the books that I like. Ruminations on life, places, language, knowledge, literature, philosophy and music – being on the move or keeping still."Before sitting up straight again, he had a strange fleeting nightmare–he dreamt he was going from one mlanguage to another like someone running through a line of sheets hung out to dry. Each time he encountered a language, his face became wet and he thought he had woken up in his mother tongue, until he got to the next sheet and realised his mistake. Still running, he began talking to himself, and could clearly visualise the language he was speaking–he was able to contemplate the words he was uttering, their structures, their inflexions, yet he always arrived to late. The moment he came close to understanding the language in which he was dreaming, he felt something slap him in the face, and he woke up in the next language. Hans ran like a madman, arriving once, a hundred times too late to perceive these languages, until suddenly he understood he had really woken up." less

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