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Epépé (1970)

by Ferenc Karinthy(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2207248372 (ISBN13: 9782207248379)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Denoël

review 1: I love dystopias, and this one may not be the most original, but memorable and even haunting. Only at the end I realised it must be an allegory as well (I was clearly too slow), and that added even more to my appreciation of it. Funny thing: I was reading it on the plane from New York to Dayton, and when an announcement sounded, I could not understand a single word of it (and not in the usual way). It just sounded like complete gibberish. Read it, and you will know why!
review 2: I'm not keen on translations because I'm sure they lose something. In English, this read smoothly nonetheless. It's an Eastern European,1984-like story by a writer who probably started out without knowinghow to conclude. Suffers from almost total absence of dialogue.Readers who like ni... morece, wrapped-up conclusions, all questions answered,will hate it. Readers who like to be made to think will be ... made to think. less

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