Thursday, January 1, 2015

Stranger in the night



Stranger in the night"Strangers, strangers in the night, looked at each other, wondering what their chances", translated into French writer Lambron, and then in English - Nina Kulish.


Time in the novel Lambron is on the parabola, being dispersed in the 60th year in Rome and easing off towards the end of the Vietnam war, when the hero returns to America and gets children. 60-x - premonition, after the 60 - remembering. The main part of the narrative squeezed (even say: hammered) in this decade. Marc Lambron recreates the era with a few figures of reference: Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini, andré Malraux, Roger Vadim, with reference to casual Brigitte Bardot, Norman mailer and Nico. The mention of "no claim to the veracity of the image. The novel is reminiscent of collage, where among smear paint a great piece of newspaper, tissue or bone from the fish.

The actual characters are invented characters in the novel three: free reporter-Genesis Jacques Carrer, American model Tina white of his Roman friend, and her sister Kate Makkoli, journalist. Model died of an overdose in 69 m, the journalist made his name on the books about the Vietnam war and married Carrera. An important figure - psychoanalyst-immigrant Carl grünberg, treating Tina in new York. His letter to Kate is the conceptual center of the novel and talks about the new idolatry. But to call psychoanalyst character does not work: rather, it is a function of the epoch, expressed in the letter.


The theme of the worship of idols is found by the author anywhere. Not with surprise, and with a grim satisfaction, the photographer showing random shots: "I didn't expect anything else." "Rome" Fellini, tomato soup and movies Warhol, posters of rock stars in the homes of American soldiers. Andre Malraux said Carrera in 1966: "the Prophecy of Nietzsche's death of God is realized in the revival of the statues. There will be a new, non-religious cult, which has not yet awakened statues will be surrounded by hysterical adoration. And because these idols has its price, on the trading fetishes and selling idols will grow whole commercial Empire. Time has proved these words.














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