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A Investigação (2010)

by Philippe Claudel(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sextante

review 1: If you decide to read this book, think of it as a quick read of a Kafkaesque novella so you are not disappointed. This work is not of the intense and mesmerizing caliber of Grey Souls with its beautiful descriptions and deep character development. There are, however, some amusingly absurd moments during The Inspector's attempts to investigate the Enterprise, his stay at "The Hope" hotel, and his circular discussions with the Giantess and the Policeman. It's worth reading to the end for his speculations about life as he talks with the Psychologist and the Founder. Claudel, being the Director, should make a short film. But it's not a profound novel like Grey Souls or Brodeck.
review 2: It is impossible to describe The Investigator without the word Kafk... moreaesque. In fact Kafka with mobile phones might be the most apt description. It is about the Investigator who arrives in an unnamed town to investigate the Enterprise and is thwarted by the Policeman, the Guide, the Manager, and other sundry characters or character types, with the entire novel in the end dissolving into something between postmodernism and hallucination.It is interesting and readable from beginning to end, some of the scenes are quite funny, and the postmodernism is worn relatively lightly (besides the ocasional aside like when the Investigator says "You're not a policeman. This isn't a luxury hotel. This is not reality. I'm in a novel, or a dream and, what's more, probably not in one of my own dreams but in another's dream, the dream of a complex, perverse being having fun at my expense.") The themes and ideas are not exactly unique, individuality being crushed by modernity as manifested by capitalism, rules, police, etc. But it is still entertaining enough in most places. Although nowhere near as good as Claudel's Brodeck or By a Slow River. less

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