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Vier Neue Nachrichten (2014)

by Joshua Cohen(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3895616257 (ISBN13: 9783895616259)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Schöffling

review 1: joshua cohen attempts to explode the short story structure but does not succeed with the type of explosion he's looking for. these stories (4 of them, longish-short stories, the titular "messages," a title that doubles as an inbox reminder) exist on a sort of shifting sand that never allows you to get comfortable with the narrative. there are moments in each story that are very compelling but cohen's need to perpetually be 'moving on,' sometimes in ways that don't (imho) make much sense at all, marks those moments as spare and not deeply felt enough. cohen's got talent to burn, but it'd be nice if he'd chill out a little.
review 2: This book is hailed as a social commentary on the Internet age, which in a very existential sense it is. However I would be more pr... moreone to call this book a collection of three short stories and a novella that symbolize how we express ourselves in the midst of open and aware communications. This alone warrants a read, but throw in Cohen's writing and his experimentation with language and you have a very interesting book indeed. less

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