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Boksör Böcek (2011)

by Ned Beauman(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Domingo

review 1: El tipo de locura que me hace babear de placer: coleccionismo nazi, boxeadores judíos, barriobajeros sonados, asesinos daneses, fascistas ingleses de los años 30, aristócratas ridículos, mad doctors pichaflojas, eugenesia, enfermedades raras y apestosas, música atonal, futuristas italianos, insector mutantes, cartas de Hitler, sexo gay, lenguajes artificiales, casas del futuro del siglo XIX, humor inglés, instinto bruto. Lástima que flojée un poco en las últimas páginas.
review 2: Beauman's debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, is mired in two worlds. Only a few months older than myself, Beauman clearly owes a great debt to pre- and post-WWII authors from Orwell to McCann (I know the gap is huge) but being a modern writer he almost seems like he was born in the... more wrong decade. The subject material and lyrical cadence belongs to decades past. Even his humor, witty though it is, seems to be born of vaudeville and silent films. The novel bounces between the past and present but the present seems much less interesting and underdeveloped. Only in the novel's conclusion do the present and past merge in an unsettling yet satisfying way. Recommended for entomologists, Darwinists, boxers and fans of misplaced sexual rage. less

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