You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
Dark satire a la T. Corraghessen Boyle based on the life of German cocovorian August Engelhardt. A cocovorian is someone who thrives solely on coconuts and the only cocovorian in history is likely to be August Enghelhardt.
Engelhardt used his inheritance to charter a ship to the South Seas and buy an island where he could start a sect of coconut eating, sun worshipping, close eschewing people.
So, Kracht does not have to do much to point the needle to absurd.
What he does deliver is a whip-smart, beautifully written, devilishly clever comedy. His style is a combination os ironic indifference and Monty Pythonian absurdities.
The first third of the book Kracht is on fire cracking jokes, running through the plot at a brisk jog and generally having a hell of a time, which means we do to. The book starts to settle down and become less frenetic. Unfortunately, frenetic is what Kracht does really well. So, when the pace slows, our interest lags a bit. Everything picks up in the finally as a group of plot points converge and as Engelhardt falls into full blown mania (not a spoiler, you know he would.
Kracht is an intellectual gesture and Imperium is a fun, fine work.
Engelhardt used his inheritance to charter a ship to the South Seas and buy an island where he could start a sect of coconut eating, sun worshipping, close eschewing people.
So, Kracht does not have to do much to point the needle to absurd.
What he does deliver is a whip-smart, beautifully written, devilishly clever comedy. His style is a combination os ironic indifference and Monty Pythonian absurdities.
The first third of the book Kracht is on fire cracking jokes, running through the plot at a brisk jog and generally having a hell of a time, which means we do to. The book starts to settle down and become less frenetic. Unfortunately, frenetic is what Kracht does really well. So, when the pace slows, our interest lags a bit. Everything picks up in the finally as a group of plot points converge and as Engelhardt falls into full blown mania (not a spoiler, you know he would.
Kracht is an intellectual gesture and Imperium is a fun, fine work.