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Het Onderzoek (2010)

by Philippe Claudel(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9023463846 (ISBN13: 9789023463849)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

De Bezige Bij

review 1: Frankly I expected more of this book, but that's just because Claudel is known to have received several prizes.I absolutely loved how he seems to describe ordinary things and events and phenomena in a way so detailed it's almost like he's trying to dive into a new dimension of the object he's describing. Then it got too repetitive and boring. There were too many unnecessary paragraphs in this novel. It could have been easily written in way less than 200 pages instead of 300.It was a pleasant, quick read though, despite being somewhat disappointing.
review 2: Totally Kafkaesque. I have not read Kafka for a very long time, I used to love his books, maybe I would not enjoy them anymore, I'd have to read one again to figure out. But I know that I did not really ... morelike "L'enquête" (I read it in French). Fortunately it's a short book, because it seems repetitive, and even a little boring. I realize there are interesting subjects in this book: the place of rules, technology, hierarchy in society, what makes us humans and lose our humanity. But still, I just could not get into that book, after having read about a third of it, I was ready to move on. The author does a good job at transcribing the absurdity of it all in his tone and his writing though. less

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