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Vernon Sullivan #3
袉 屑懈 蟹薪懈褖懈屑芯 胁褋褨褏 锌芯褌胁芯褉薪懈褏
芦袉 屑懈 蟹薪懈褖懈屑芯 胁褋褨褏 锌芯褌胁芯褉薪懈褏禄 褉芯蟹锌芯胁褨写邪褦 褨褋褌芯褉褨褞 袪芯泻褨 袘械泄谢褨, 蟹褍褏胁邪谢芯谐芯 19-褉褨褔薪芯谐芯 褞薪邪泻邪, 褟泻懈泄 锌褉芯胁芯写懈褌褜 褔邪褋 胁 薪褨褔薪懈褏 写卸邪蟹-泻谢褍斜邪褏 袥芯褋-袗薪写卸械谢械褋邪, 褨 锌褉芯 泄芯谐芯 褋褍褌懈褔泻褍 蟹 薪邪胁褨卸械薪懈屑 写芯泻褌芯褉芯屑 袦邪褉泻褍褋芯屑 楔褍褑芯屑, 褖芯 蟹邪褋薪褍胁邪胁 泻芯谢芯薪褨褞, 写械 锌芯褌胁芯褉薪褨褋褌褜 鈥� 褑械 谐械薪械褌懈褔薪懈泄 蟹谢芯褔懈薪.
袘褨泄泻懈, 邪胁褌芯屑芯斜褨谢褜薪褨 锌芯谐芯薪褨, 胁懈泻褉邪写械薪薪褟 谢褞写械泄 褨 胁斜懈胁褋褌胁邪 泄写褍褌褜 胁 褉芯屑邪薪褨 芯写薪褨 蟹邪 芯写薪懈屑懈 蟹邪 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌芯屑 写芯屑褨薪芯. 袥褨褉懈褔薪褨 褌邪 褋褞褉褉械邪谢褨褋褌懈褔薪褨 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 袘芯褉懈褋邪 袙褨邪薪邪 锌芯褋褌褍锌邪褞褌褜褋褟 屑褨褋褑械屑 锌邪褉芯写褨泄薪芯屑褍 锌械褉械写褔褍褌褌褞 锌谢邪褋褌懈褔薪芯褩 褏褨褉褍褉谐褨褩, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 褉芯蟹写褍屑邪屑 褍 褋褌懈谢褨 泻薪懈卸芯泻-泻芯屑褨泻褋褨胁 锌褉芯 斜邪褔械薪薪褟 锌邪薪褨胁薪芯褩 褉邪褋懈 薪邪褑懈褋褌褋褜泻芯褞 袧褨屑械褔褔懈薪芯褞. 笑械 薪邪褉邪褌懈胁薪懈泄 泻芯泻褌械泄谢褜 蟹 褌邪泻懈褏 褨薪覒褉械写褨褦薪褌褨胁 褟泻 袪械泄屑芯薪写 效械薪写谢械褉, 袚. 袛卸. 袙械谢蟹, 褉芯屑邪薪 芦携泻懈泄 褔褍写械褋薪懈泄 褋胁褨褌 薪芯胁懈泄!禄 褨 褎褨谢褜屑 芦袘邪褉斜邪褉械谢谢邪禄.
芦袉 屑懈 蟹薪懈褖懈屑芯 胁褋褨褏 锌芯褌胁芯褉薪懈褏禄 鈥� 械褉芯褌懈褔薪懈泄 泻褉懈屑褨薪邪谢褜薪懈泄 褉芯屑邪薪 蟹 褌械薪写械薪褑褨褟屑懈 写芯 薪邪褍泻芯胁芯褩 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈泻懈.
袘褨泄泻懈, 邪胁褌芯屑芯斜褨谢褜薪褨 锌芯谐芯薪褨, 胁懈泻褉邪写械薪薪褟 谢褞写械泄 褨 胁斜懈胁褋褌胁邪 泄写褍褌褜 胁 褉芯屑邪薪褨 芯写薪褨 蟹邪 芯写薪懈屑懈 蟹邪 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌芯屑 写芯屑褨薪芯. 袥褨褉懈褔薪褨 褌邪 褋褞褉褉械邪谢褨褋褌懈褔薪褨 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 袘芯褉懈褋邪 袙褨邪薪邪 锌芯褋褌褍锌邪褞褌褜褋褟 屑褨褋褑械屑 锌邪褉芯写褨泄薪芯屑褍 锌械褉械写褔褍褌褌褞 锌谢邪褋褌懈褔薪芯褩 褏褨褉褍褉谐褨褩, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 褉芯蟹写褍屑邪屑 褍 褋褌懈谢褨 泻薪懈卸芯泻-泻芯屑褨泻褋褨胁 锌褉芯 斜邪褔械薪薪褟 锌邪薪褨胁薪芯褩 褉邪褋懈 薪邪褑懈褋褌褋褜泻芯褞 袧褨屑械褔褔懈薪芯褞. 笑械 薪邪褉邪褌懈胁薪懈泄 泻芯泻褌械泄谢褜 蟹 褌邪泻懈褏 褨薪覒褉械写褨褦薪褌褨胁 褟泻 袪械泄屑芯薪写 效械薪写谢械褉, 袚. 袛卸. 袙械谢蟹, 褉芯屑邪薪 芦携泻懈泄 褔褍写械褋薪懈泄 褋胁褨褌 薪芯胁懈泄!禄 褨 褎褨谢褜屑 芦袘邪褉斜邪褉械谢谢邪禄.
芦袉 屑懈 蟹薪懈褖懈屑芯 胁褋褨褏 锌芯褌胁芯褉薪懈褏禄 鈥� 械褉芯褌懈褔薪懈泄 泻褉懈屑褨薪邪谢褜薪懈泄 褉芯屑邪薪 蟹 褌械薪写械薪褑褨褟屑懈 写芯 薪邪褍泻芯胁芯褩 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈泻懈.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1948
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Boris Vian
346听books1,712听followersBoris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L鈥櫭塩ume des jours and L'Arrache-c艙ur (translated into English as Froth on the Daydream and Heartsnatcher, respectively). He is also known for highly controversial "criminal" fiction released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and some of his songs (particularly the anti-war Le D茅serteur). Vian was also fascinated with jazz: he served as liaison for, among others, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France.
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August 16, 2022
L鈥橧SOLA DEL DOTTOR SCHUTZ
Un altro romanzo a firma Vernon Sullivan, lo pseudonimo che Boris Vian adottava quando voleva 鈥渇are l鈥檃mericano鈥�, quando sceglieva d鈥檈ssere 鈥榝orte鈥�, nudo-e-crudo. E sperava di aggirare la censura francese.
Questa volta mi piace pensare si collochi a cavallo tra Myra Breckinridge e The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Mr Los Angeles, cio猫 l鈥檜omo eletto il pi霉 bello della citt脿 degli angeli, si chiama Rock (non Rocky, ma quasi), viene rapito.
Rock, che ha scelto la castit脿 come sua personale strada verso la bellezza, la perfezione fisica, l鈥檃llenamento, si ritrova prigioniero di un tale dottor Schutz che vorrebbe costringerlo ad accoppiarsi con una bella signorina. Proprio lui che le donne le tiene lontane, se le scrolla di dosso, per non disperdere il seme e la concentrazione spirituale (e fisica).
Questo dottor Schutz 猫 un sedicente scienziato che vorrebbe servirsi di Rock per creare la nuova razza umana esteticamente perfetta.
Se non che, Rock si sottrae alla forzata donazione del suo sperma, trona libero. E a quel punto, facendo coppia con un bizzarro (e cosa non 猫 bizzarro in questa storia?!) agente segreto, ma non solo, man mano si aggiungono altri partner sempre alquanto pittoreschi, Rock si mette sulle tracce del dottor Schutz.
Raccontare una trama cos矛, oltre che difficile, perch茅 猫 rocambolesca delirante e apparentemente frivola, ha poco senso. Perch茅 猫 chiaro che a Vernon Sullivan, alias Boris Vian, dietro il gioco letterario, preme dissacrare e spezzare una lancia contro la frenetica corsa alla perfezione del corpo, contro l鈥檃pparenza a scapito della sostanza, la superficie a danno della profondit脿, dello spessore. La maniacalit脿 che spinge alla perfezione uccide e appiattisce la diversit脿, 猫 un'altra forma di totalitarismo a scapito dell鈥檌ndividualit脿. Un鈥檃ltra faccia del razzismo.
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Boris Vian e il jazz.
Un altro romanzo a firma Vernon Sullivan, lo pseudonimo che Boris Vian adottava quando voleva 鈥渇are l鈥檃mericano鈥�, quando sceglieva d鈥檈ssere 鈥榝orte鈥�, nudo-e-crudo. E sperava di aggirare la censura francese.
Questa volta mi piace pensare si collochi a cavallo tra Myra Breckinridge e The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Mr Los Angeles, cio猫 l鈥檜omo eletto il pi霉 bello della citt脿 degli angeli, si chiama Rock (non Rocky, ma quasi), viene rapito.
Rock, che ha scelto la castit脿 come sua personale strada verso la bellezza, la perfezione fisica, l鈥檃llenamento, si ritrova prigioniero di un tale dottor Schutz che vorrebbe costringerlo ad accoppiarsi con una bella signorina. Proprio lui che le donne le tiene lontane, se le scrolla di dosso, per non disperdere il seme e la concentrazione spirituale (e fisica).
Questo dottor Schutz 猫 un sedicente scienziato che vorrebbe servirsi di Rock per creare la nuova razza umana esteticamente perfetta.
Se non che, Rock si sottrae alla forzata donazione del suo sperma, trona libero. E a quel punto, facendo coppia con un bizzarro (e cosa non 猫 bizzarro in questa storia?!) agente segreto, ma non solo, man mano si aggiungono altri partner sempre alquanto pittoreschi, Rock si mette sulle tracce del dottor Schutz.
Raccontare una trama cos矛, oltre che difficile, perch茅 猫 rocambolesca delirante e apparentemente frivola, ha poco senso. Perch茅 猫 chiaro che a Vernon Sullivan, alias Boris Vian, dietro il gioco letterario, preme dissacrare e spezzare una lancia contro la frenetica corsa alla perfezione del corpo, contro l鈥檃pparenza a scapito della sostanza, la superficie a danno della profondit脿, dello spessore. La maniacalit脿 che spinge alla perfezione uccide e appiattisce la diversit脿, 猫 un'altra forma di totalitarismo a scapito dell鈥檌ndividualit脿. Un鈥檃ltra faccia del razzismo.
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Boris Vian e il jazz.
December 10, 2017
Escrita en 1948 para epatar al personal, sigue siendo a d铆a de hoy igual de provocadora. Es imposible que te deje indiferente y algunas de las cosas de las que habla, desgraciadamente se est谩n cumpliendo: como la obsesi贸n por la belleza y la uniformidad de los c谩nones est茅ticos.
May 7, 2018
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September 18, 2024- You know, Mr. Vian, I had to give up reading your book after not even 80 pages..
- It's okay, my friend. I guess you had some strong reasons.
- Yes. At one point, my cat started meowing terribly, and usually he only does that when he thinks I'm wasting my time.
- Ah bon ? And why would your cat think that , if I may ask ?
- Well... you see, Mr. Vian, we all have sexual fantasies..But we try, as much as possible, not to make it a predominant subject of a book..
- Maybe you're right, my friend, but if I didn't do it when I was 15, I had to do it now, you know...
- I wouldn't want you to misunderstand me, Mr. Vian, but I didn't understand why one should be forced to have sex with a beautiful woman, as in your book. I mean..I could understand only if it was Angela Merkel. Apart from that, I kept hoping, throughout the whole reading to find the irony, cynicism, and parody that you used to me, but..nothing of all these..
- Listen, my friend..Try to understand me. I had to do it. This sex thing has obssesed me since my childhood..I had to transpose this, somehow..
- Ah, I understand. But still, I'd have liked this chapter to be just a starting point, and not a fixed, repeated idea, endlessly.
- Okay, my friend, I've got your point. But, honestly, don't you have sexual fantasies ?
- Oh, sure. I would like to force Marine Le Pen to sing me La Marseillaise loudly, while we have sex.
- It's okay, my friend. I guess you had some strong reasons.
- Yes. At one point, my cat started meowing terribly, and usually he only does that when he thinks I'm wasting my time.
- Ah bon ? And why would your cat think that , if I may ask ?
- Well... you see, Mr. Vian, we all have sexual fantasies..But we try, as much as possible, not to make it a predominant subject of a book..
- Maybe you're right, my friend, but if I didn't do it when I was 15, I had to do it now, you know...
- I wouldn't want you to misunderstand me, Mr. Vian, but I didn't understand why one should be forced to have sex with a beautiful woman, as in your book. I mean..I could understand only if it was Angela Merkel. Apart from that, I kept hoping, throughout the whole reading to find the irony, cynicism, and parody that you used to me, but..nothing of all these..
- Listen, my friend..Try to understand me. I had to do it. This sex thing has obssesed me since my childhood..I had to transpose this, somehow..
- Ah, I understand. But still, I'd have liked this chapter to be just a starting point, and not a fixed, repeated idea, endlessly.
- Okay, my friend, I've got your point. But, honestly, don't you have sexual fantasies ?
- Oh, sure. I would like to force Marine Le Pen to sing me La Marseillaise loudly, while we have sex.
January 17, 2020
韦苇蟿伪蟻蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰蠀 螠蟺慰蟻委蟼 螔喂伪谓 蟺慰蠀 未喂伪尾维味蠅, 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 蟺伪谓蟿蔚位蠋蟼 尾位伪渭渭苇谓慰 "螛伪 蠁蟿蠉蟽蠅 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 蟿维蠁慰蠀蟼 蟽伪蟼", 蟿慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位蠈 魏伪喂 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻慰 "桅胃喂谓蠈蟺蠅蟻慰 蟽蟿慰 螤蔚魏委谓慰" 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃畏蟿喂魏蠈 伪位位维 渭维位位慰谓 渭苇蟿蟻喂慰 "螌位伪 蟿伪 蟺蟿蠋渭伪蟿伪 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟿慰 委未喂慰 蠂蟻蠋渭伪", 魏伪喂 未蔚谓 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 蟺蠅 蠈蟿喂 蔚谓胃慰蠀蟽喂维蟽蟿畏魏伪. 螠维位位慰谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪 蟺慰蠀 苇纬蟻伪蠄蔚 渭蔚 蟿慰 蠄蔚蠀未蠋谓蠀渭慰 螔苇蟻谓慰谓 危维位喂尾伪谓 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 (蟽蠂蔚未蠈谓) 魏伪胃蠈位慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 纬慰蠉蟽蟿慰蠀 渭慰蠀, 伪谓 魏伪喂 蟿蔚委谓慰蠀谓 蟺慰位蠉 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿慰 蟺伪位蟺 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻蠅未委伪, 魏维蟿喂 蟺慰蠀 纬蔚谓喂魏维 伪蟺慰位伪渭尾维谓蠅 蟺慰位蠉. 螖蔚谓 尉苇蟻蠅, 魏维蟿喂 蟽蟿畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蠈位慰 蠉蠁慰蟼, 魏维蟿喂 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿喂蟼 蟺位慰魏苇蟼 蟿蠅谓 蟿蟻喂蠋谓 蟺伪位蟺 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 未喂伪 蠂蔚喂蟻蠈蟼... 危维位喂尾伪谓, 未蔚谓 渭慰蠀 魏维谓蔚喂 魏位喂魏. 韦慰 委未喂慰 魏伪喂 蔚未蠋, 伪谓 魏伪喂 慰蠁蔚委位蠅 谓伪 蟺伪蟻伪未蔚蠂蟿蠋 蠈蟿喂 蠀蟺萎蟻尉伪谓 蟽蟿喂纬渭苇蟼 魏伪喂 蟽魏畏谓苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭慰蠀 维蟻蔚蟽伪谓, 蔚谓蠋 蟽委纬慰蠀蟻伪 慰 螔喂伪谓 萎蟿伪谓 伪蟻魏蔚蟿维 渭蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维 魏伪喂 未蔚谓 魏蠋位蠅谓蔚 谓伪 尉蔚蠁蠉纬蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟺伪蟿畏渭苇谓畏. 螌渭蠅蟼 蟿慰 纬蔚谓喂魏蠈 蟽蠉谓慰位慰 渭慰蠀 蠁维谓畏魏蔚 慰位委纬慰谓 蟿喂 渭苇蟿蟻喂慰, 蔚谓蠋 畏 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏 魏蟻维蟿畏蟽蔚 伪蟻魏蔚蟿维 蟺伪蟻伪蟺维谓蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 蟽蠀谓畏胃喂蟽渭苇谓伪 渭慰蠀 蟽蟿维谓蟿伪蟻 渭蔚 蟿苇蟿慰喂慰蠀 渭蔚纬苇胃慰蠀蟼 尾喂尾位委伪, 慰蟺蠈蟿蔚 魏维蟿喂 位苇蔚喂 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈. 螝维渭蟺慰蟽蔚蟼 蠁慰蟻苇蟼 苇蠂伪谓伪 蟿慰 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓 渭慰蠀 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蠈位畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪, 蟿慰 维蠁畏谓伪 魏维蟿蠅, 蠂维味蔚蠀伪 伪蟺蠈 未蠅 魏伪喂 伪蟺蠈 魏蔚喂, 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 蟺蟻维纬渭伪蟿伪. 韦苇位慰蟼 蟺维谓蟿蠅谓, 未蔚谓 蟺苇蟻伪蟽伪 魏伪喂 维蟽蠂畏渭伪 蔚未蠋 蟺慰蠀 蟿伪 位苇渭蔚, 蠈渭蠅蟼 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 尾喂尾位委伪 伪谓 未蔚谓 蟿伪 伪蟺慰位伪蠉蟽蔚喂蟼 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏维, 蟿蠈蟿蔚 未蔚谓 "位苇谓蔚". 螤维谓蟿蠅蟼 苇蠂蠅 渭苇位位慰谓 渭蔚 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪, 渭喂伪蟼 魏伪喂 苇蠂蠅 蟺蟻慰渭畏胃蔚蠀蟿蔚委 魏维渭蟺慰蟽伪 尾喂尾位委伪 蟿慰蠀, 蟿伪 慰蟺慰委伪 苇纬蟻伪蠄蔚 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 蟿慰蠀 蠈谓慰渭伪, 慰蟺蠈蟿蔚 委蟽蠅蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 未喂伪蠁慰蟻蔚蟿喂魏慰蠉 蠉蠁慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 未喂伪蠁慰蟻蔚蟿喂魏萎蟼 位慰纬喂魏萎蟼, 魏伪喂 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 渭慰蠀 伪蟻苇蟽慰蠀谓 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰.
October 22, 2018
La broma m谩s aguda que pueda hac茅rsele a la novela negra. En primer lugar, se somete al protagonista- que no es ni alcoh贸lico ni un genio disfuncional- a una serie de sucesos totalmente inveros铆miles, de los que no sale bien parado. En segundo lugar, si bien aquel es irresistible a las mujeres, nunca se encuentra como tal a una femme fatale, sino a un mont贸n de personas deseosas de saciar su deseo sexual. En tercer lugar, nada, absolutamente nada de lo que ocurre tiene sentido. 驴C贸mo es eso de que existe un doctor que crea seres humanos hermosos porque siente aversi贸n a los feos y desea poblar el mundo de gente bella? 驴C贸mo es posible que, en virtud de dicha investigaci贸n, rapten mujeres y hombres para probar el apetito sexual desenfrenado de dichas creaciones? 驴Qu茅 pasa con los pol铆ticos que son creaciones de Schutz? Poco y nada pasa con esto, m谩s que una org铆a de risas y locuras. Esto puede ejemplificarse exponiendo las razones de Schutz para llevar a cabo sus experimentos:
"La gente suele ser muy fea- dijo Schutz. 驴No se ha dado cuenta de que no se puede caminar por la calle sin ver much铆sima gente fea? Pues mire, a m铆 me encanta andar por la calle pero me horroriza la fealdad. As铆 que constru铆 una calle, fabriqu茅 gente bonita que paseara...Era lo m谩s bonito que pod铆a hacer. Hab铆a ganado much铆simo dinero cuidando a millonarios repletos de 煤lcera de est贸mago...Pero me cans茅..., ya ten铆a bastante...Mi divisa es: que se mueran los feos... Divertido, 驴verdad?" (P谩g. 172).
M谩s all谩 de la risa, me es imposible no leer a Vian en clave pol铆tica, similar a como Walter Benjamin ve铆a el surrealismo. Ciertamente, la literatura de Vian se articula, antes que nada, a partir de composiciones. En sus libros, m煤ltiples elementos aparentemente dis铆miles entran en relaci贸n, cuestionando la comprensi贸n habitual que tenemos de los mismos. Ahora bien, dicha comprensi贸n no pretende ser modificada por otra mejor; por el contrario, pretende ser ridiculizada a partir de su obsolescencia y posterior desnaturalizaci贸n dentro del universo de la narraci贸n que el escritor franc茅s propone. En este caso, no dej茅 de preguntarme por la fabricaci贸n en masa de la belleza y los cuestionamientos del protagonista y Mike hac铆a el final, siendo que ambos son personas con un f铆sico despampanante.
Otro asunto que caus贸 inter茅s en m铆 fue la relaci贸n entre los hombres y las mujeres dentro de la belleza: la cosificaci贸n del otro es llevada al punto en que todos somos mercanc铆as intercambiables, cuyo 煤nico valor radica en los atributos diferentes de cada uno (color de cabello, ojos, curvas, etc). En ese sentido, la afirmaci贸n por los feos cobra un triste y preocupante sentido: si los feos son mercanc铆as contrahechas, mal manufacturadas, 驴por qu茅 no acabarlos? Ahora bien, Mike tan s贸lo atina, en su defensa de la fealdad como algo necesario, a reafirmar dicho principio sin cuestionarlo: 驴qu茅 ser谩 de nosotros los guapos-afirma 茅l- si la belleza se exotiza? Seguramente habr铆a una ca铆da de la belleza como principal factor a tener en cuenta para el sexo (煤nico motor de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres dentro de la novela). Esto 煤ltimo, permite ver que la locura de Vian no es, en realidad, algo tan distante de nuestra vida cotidiana: Que se mueran los feos termina por ser todo un manifiesto en contra de las relaciones t贸xicas heterosexuales. Y es que, por desgracia, existe una inmensa mayor铆a de personas que viven sus vidas instrumentalizando al otro en virtud de satisfacer un deseo, como si fuesen mercanc铆as. De all铆 que hubiese fastidiado a tantos cr铆ticos esta historia: los protagonistas convalidan la l贸gica opresiva, aparte que ni se inmutan con las implicaciones que la creaci贸n de seres humanos trae consigo. Si algo puede llegar a molestar en este libro, es que la denuncia quede hecha y nada pase...que nunca se resuelva y, por el contrario, se convalide como algo "bueno" (cuarto elemento transgresor de la novela negra).
Dato aparte: sorprende la cantidad de errores de digitaci贸n y traducci贸n presentes en la novela. Es como si el texto se hubiese publicado sin un corrector de estilo tras la labor del traductor. Ojal谩 pudiesen arreglar estos errores, pues su frecuencia es abismal.
"La gente suele ser muy fea- dijo Schutz. 驴No se ha dado cuenta de que no se puede caminar por la calle sin ver much铆sima gente fea? Pues mire, a m铆 me encanta andar por la calle pero me horroriza la fealdad. As铆 que constru铆 una calle, fabriqu茅 gente bonita que paseara...Era lo m谩s bonito que pod铆a hacer. Hab铆a ganado much铆simo dinero cuidando a millonarios repletos de 煤lcera de est贸mago...Pero me cans茅..., ya ten铆a bastante...Mi divisa es: que se mueran los feos... Divertido, 驴verdad?" (P谩g. 172).
M谩s all谩 de la risa, me es imposible no leer a Vian en clave pol铆tica, similar a como Walter Benjamin ve铆a el surrealismo. Ciertamente, la literatura de Vian se articula, antes que nada, a partir de composiciones. En sus libros, m煤ltiples elementos aparentemente dis铆miles entran en relaci贸n, cuestionando la comprensi贸n habitual que tenemos de los mismos. Ahora bien, dicha comprensi贸n no pretende ser modificada por otra mejor; por el contrario, pretende ser ridiculizada a partir de su obsolescencia y posterior desnaturalizaci贸n dentro del universo de la narraci贸n que el escritor franc茅s propone. En este caso, no dej茅 de preguntarme por la fabricaci贸n en masa de la belleza y los cuestionamientos del protagonista y Mike hac铆a el final, siendo que ambos son personas con un f铆sico despampanante.
Otro asunto que caus贸 inter茅s en m铆 fue la relaci贸n entre los hombres y las mujeres dentro de la belleza: la cosificaci贸n del otro es llevada al punto en que todos somos mercanc铆as intercambiables, cuyo 煤nico valor radica en los atributos diferentes de cada uno (color de cabello, ojos, curvas, etc). En ese sentido, la afirmaci贸n por los feos cobra un triste y preocupante sentido: si los feos son mercanc铆as contrahechas, mal manufacturadas, 驴por qu茅 no acabarlos? Ahora bien, Mike tan s贸lo atina, en su defensa de la fealdad como algo necesario, a reafirmar dicho principio sin cuestionarlo: 驴qu茅 ser谩 de nosotros los guapos-afirma 茅l- si la belleza se exotiza? Seguramente habr铆a una ca铆da de la belleza como principal factor a tener en cuenta para el sexo (煤nico motor de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres dentro de la novela). Esto 煤ltimo, permite ver que la locura de Vian no es, en realidad, algo tan distante de nuestra vida cotidiana: Que se mueran los feos termina por ser todo un manifiesto en contra de las relaciones t贸xicas heterosexuales. Y es que, por desgracia, existe una inmensa mayor铆a de personas que viven sus vidas instrumentalizando al otro en virtud de satisfacer un deseo, como si fuesen mercanc铆as. De all铆 que hubiese fastidiado a tantos cr铆ticos esta historia: los protagonistas convalidan la l贸gica opresiva, aparte que ni se inmutan con las implicaciones que la creaci贸n de seres humanos trae consigo. Si algo puede llegar a molestar en este libro, es que la denuncia quede hecha y nada pase...que nunca se resuelva y, por el contrario, se convalide como algo "bueno" (cuarto elemento transgresor de la novela negra).
Dato aparte: sorprende la cantidad de errores de digitaci贸n y traducci贸n presentes en la novela. Es como si el texto se hubiese publicado sin un corrector de estilo tras la labor del traductor. Ojal谩 pudiesen arreglar estos errores, pues su frecuencia es abismal.
October 17, 2020
袧械 蟹薪邪褞 褖芯 褌邪屑 褨薪褕芯谐芯 薪邪锌懈褋邪胁 袙械褉薪芯薪 小邪谢褨胁邪薪, 邪谢械 褑褟 泻薪懈谐邪 褌芯褔薪芯 锌褨写泻褉械褋谢褞褦 褍薪褨泻邪谢褜薪懈泄 褋褌懈谢褜 袙褨邪薪邪. 小胁芯褩屑懈 褋褞卸械褌薪懈屑懈 锌械褉懈锌械褌褨褟屑懈 斜褨谢褜褕械 褋褏芯卸邪 薪邪 袨褋褨薪褜 胁 袩械泻褨薪褨, 邪谢械 写懈薪邪屑褨褔薪褨褕邪. 携泻褖芯 胁褉邪褏褍胁邪褌懈 褉褨泻 薪邪锌懈褋邪薪薪褟, 褌芯 褌械屑邪 褦胁谐械薪褨泻懈 褌褍褌 胁懈写邪褦褌褜褋褟 锌褉芯褋褌芯 屑械谐邪邪泻褌褍邪谢褜薪芯褞, 芯褋芯斜谢懈胁芯 蟹 芯谐谢褟写褍 薪邪 褌械, 褖芯 胁芯薪邪 锌械褉械锌芯胁薪械薪邪 锌芯褋褌屑芯写械褉薪褨褋褌懈褔薪芯褞 邪斜褋褍褉写薪芯褞 褋邪褌懈褉芯褞.
June 17, 2017
Uma escrita a satirizar os maiores clich茅s de uma por莽茫o da literatura policial hard-boiled (principalmente aqueles autores que parecem mesmo ter "brutalidade" como nome do meio - Mickey Spillane, por exemplo), numa pan贸plia de aventuras para demonstrar uma ideia exemplar de fic莽茫o cient铆fica (que de fic莽茫o at茅 parece ter pouco). Um livro estranho, mas muito divertido e movimentado, ou: como um autor "consagrado" utiliza um pseud贸nimo para fazer um exerc铆cio de escrita mais de g茅nero, copiando certas refer锚ncias e fornecendo ainda algo mais do que uma mera "homenagem".
September 1, 2020
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螠喂伪 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪 蟺慰蠀 渭喂位维蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 维蟽蠂畏渭慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蠈渭慰蟻蠁慰蠀蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼. 围维谓蠅 蠈渭蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 慰蠀蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰 谓蠈畏渭伪 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀.
螠喂伪 蟿蟻伪纬蠅未委伪 蟺慰蠀 渭喂位维蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 维蟽蠂畏渭慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蠈渭慰蟻蠁慰蠀蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼. 围维谓蠅 蠈渭蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 慰蠀蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰 谓蠈畏渭伪 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀.
April 16, 2024
携 写芯胁谐芯 胁邪谐邪谢邪褋褟 褟泻褍 芯褑褨薪泻褍 锌芯褋褌邪胁懈褌懈, 斜芯 蟹 芯写薪芯谐芯 斜芯泻褍 屑械薪褨 写褨泄褋薪芯 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢芯褋褟, 邪谢械 蟹 褨薪褕芯谐芯 斜芯泻褍 锌芯胁械写褨薪泻邪 谐械褉芯褩胁 斜褍谢邪 褌邪泻芯褞 锌褉懈屑褨褌懈胁薪芯褞.
袗谢械 褑褨谢泻芯屑 褨屑芯胁褨褉薪芯 褖芯 褋邪屑械 褌邪泻 邪胁褌芯褉 褨 蟹邪写褍屑褍胁邪胁.
袣薪懈谐邪 屑邪褦 胁邪泄斜 薪褍邪褉薪懈褏 写械褌械泻褌懈胁褨胁, 邪薪褌懈褍褌芯锌褨泄, 斜芯泄芯胁懈泻褨胁 80褏-90褏, 邪谢械 褨薪芯写褨 写褨褩 谐械褉芯褩胁 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 锌褉懈屑褨褌懈胁薪褨, 褖芯 邪卸 邪斜褋褍褉写薪褨. 袉 褑械 斜褍谢芯 锌褉械泻褉邪褋薪芯, 写褨褩 褨 写褍屑泻懈 谐械褉芯褩胁 斜褍谢懈 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 谐褨锌械褉斜芯谢褨蟹芯胁邪薪懈屑懈, 褖芯 邪卸 邪斜褋褍褉写薪懈屑懈. 袨褋薪芯胁薪邪 写褍屑泻邪 褌胁芯褉褞 斜褍谢邪 褌邪泻邪 谐褨锌械褉斜芯谢褨蟹芯胁邪薪邪, 褖芯 邪卸 蟹邪锌械褉械褔懈谢邪 褋械斜械 胁泻褨薪褑褨. 袛褍屑邪褞, 褖芯 胁褋械 褌邪泻懈 锌芯褋褌邪胁谢褞 5, 斜芯 屑械薪褨 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢芯褋褟 薪邪胁褨褌褜 斜褨谢褜褕械 蟹邪 小械褉褑械写械褉邪
袗谢械 褑褨谢泻芯屑 褨屑芯胁褨褉薪芯 褖芯 褋邪屑械 褌邪泻 邪胁褌芯褉 褨 蟹邪写褍屑褍胁邪胁.
袣薪懈谐邪 屑邪褦 胁邪泄斜 薪褍邪褉薪懈褏 写械褌械泻褌懈胁褨胁, 邪薪褌懈褍褌芯锌褨泄, 斜芯泄芯胁懈泻褨胁 80褏-90褏, 邪谢械 褨薪芯写褨 写褨褩 谐械褉芯褩胁 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 锌褉懈屑褨褌懈胁薪褨, 褖芯 邪卸 邪斜褋褍褉写薪褨. 袉 褑械 斜褍谢芯 锌褉械泻褉邪褋薪芯, 写褨褩 褨 写褍屑泻懈 谐械褉芯褩胁 斜褍谢懈 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 谐褨锌械褉斜芯谢褨蟹芯胁邪薪懈屑懈, 褖芯 邪卸 邪斜褋褍褉写薪懈屑懈. 袨褋薪芯胁薪邪 写褍屑泻邪 褌胁芯褉褞 斜褍谢邪 褌邪泻邪 谐褨锌械褉斜芯谢褨蟹芯胁邪薪邪, 褖芯 邪卸 蟹邪锌械褉械褔懈谢邪 褋械斜械 胁泻褨薪褑褨. 袛褍屑邪褞, 褖芯 胁褋械 褌邪泻懈 锌芯褋褌邪胁谢褞 5, 斜芯 屑械薪褨 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢芯褋褟 薪邪胁褨褌褜 斜褨谢褜褕械 蟹邪 小械褉褑械写械褉邪
May 3, 2020
Sarcasmo para agitar mentes puritanas y parodia del estilo "Pulp".
February 7, 2025
袗邪邪邪... 笑械 褌邪泻懈泄 褋褞褉... 袛褍卸械 蟹邪褌褟谐褍褞褔懈泄 褨 泻邪褉泻芯谢芯屑薪懈泄... 袦褨褕邪薪懈薪邪 谐芯褋褌褉芯褋褞卸械褌薪芯谐芯 写械褌械泻褌懈胁褍, 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈泻懈, 械褉芯褌懈泻懈...
袩褨写 泻褨薪械褑褜 泻薪懈谐邪 胁懈泻谢懈泻邪谢邪 褨褋褌械褉懈褔薪懈泄 褋屑褨褏...斜芯 褑械 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 卸 卸邪褏谢懈胁芯, 褟泻 褨 谐械薪褨邪谢褜薪芯.
袚械褌褜 褨薪褕懈泄 袙褨邪薪.
携 薪械 斜褍谢邪 写芯 褌邪泻芯谐芯 谐芯褌芯胁邪.
袩褨写 泻褨薪械褑褜 泻薪懈谐邪 胁懈泻谢懈泻邪谢邪 褨褋褌械褉懈褔薪懈泄 褋屑褨褏...斜芯 褑械 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 卸 卸邪褏谢懈胁芯, 褟泻 褨 谐械薪褨邪谢褜薪芯.
袚械褌褜 褨薪褕懈泄 袙褨邪薪.
携 薪械 斜褍谢邪 写芯 褌邪泻芯谐芯 谐芯褌芯胁邪.
June 26, 2016
Boris Vian (1920 - 1959) has been on to read for some time. I hope that with this book I made a poor choice of starting points.
Vian has a great bio - jazz musician, bon vivant, friend to Sartre and company, He was a novelist, a playwright, and the translator of Raymond Chandler. When his own novels sold poorly, he turned his publisher's request for another translation into his first Vernon Sullivan novel. He wrote four of these imaginary translations of an American noir author. (The hoax was revealed shortly after the publication of the first book.)
Great descriptions of this book, the third in the series, can be found on the back cover of the current edition. Luc Sante calls it "...America as a Left Bank fever dream.鈥� Paul Knobloch, the translator, describes is as "...a pornographic Hardy Boys novel set on the Island of Dr. Moreau." These are both lines I wish I had come up with, but then again, I would have had to have liked the book.
The narrator is nineteen-year-old Rock Bailey, an ex-Mr. Los Angeles who is saving his virginity till his twentieth birthday. He moves with a fast crowd of Hollywood types and journalists who hang out at bars all night. His physical perfection attracts a mysterious doctor who is genetically engineering a cadre of beautiful specimens who will take over the world. The hero maintains a kind of "gee whiz" attitude to the escalating sex, violence, and science fiction style action. I don't think the book could have been published as anything other than pornography in the U.S. when it written (1948), and it still reads like the kind of dirty book I might have stumbled onto as an adolescent in the 1960's.
The introduction makes some claims for the prophetic relevance of Vian鈥檚 themes of photogenic politicians and genetic engineering. Really? As a screwball phantasmagoria of mid twentieth century America it is entertaining for a while, but I was tired of it half way through.
Vian has a great bio - jazz musician, bon vivant, friend to Sartre and company, He was a novelist, a playwright, and the translator of Raymond Chandler. When his own novels sold poorly, he turned his publisher's request for another translation into his first Vernon Sullivan novel. He wrote four of these imaginary translations of an American noir author. (The hoax was revealed shortly after the publication of the first book.)
Great descriptions of this book, the third in the series, can be found on the back cover of the current edition. Luc Sante calls it "...America as a Left Bank fever dream.鈥� Paul Knobloch, the translator, describes is as "...a pornographic Hardy Boys novel set on the Island of Dr. Moreau." These are both lines I wish I had come up with, but then again, I would have had to have liked the book.
The narrator is nineteen-year-old Rock Bailey, an ex-Mr. Los Angeles who is saving his virginity till his twentieth birthday. He moves with a fast crowd of Hollywood types and journalists who hang out at bars all night. His physical perfection attracts a mysterious doctor who is genetically engineering a cadre of beautiful specimens who will take over the world. The hero maintains a kind of "gee whiz" attitude to the escalating sex, violence, and science fiction style action. I don't think the book could have been published as anything other than pornography in the U.S. when it written (1948), and it still reads like the kind of dirty book I might have stumbled onto as an adolescent in the 1960's.
The introduction makes some claims for the prophetic relevance of Vian鈥檚 themes of photogenic politicians and genetic engineering. Really? As a screwball phantasmagoria of mid twentieth century America it is entertaining for a while, but I was tired of it half way through.
March 12, 2013
Disappointingly bad. A magnificently handsome young man gets involved in a plot by a mad scientist to clone only beautiful people on some faraway island. Along the way our guy, who wanted to keep his virginity, is forced to have sex with lavishly beautiful women. The book reaches its finale when the hero gets to take part in an FBI rescue mission to infiltrate the secret island base, which is also infested with equally beautiful and continuously naked youngsters who fornicate 24/7.
Sounds like the wet dream of some pubescent boy? I tried looking for extra layers, traces of irony or parody. But there weren't, so it's just that.
Sounds like the wet dream of some pubescent boy? I tried looking for extra layers, traces of irony or parody. But there weren't, so it's just that.
June 21, 2022
idee= gudd, moral= gudd, emsetzung=鈥h bof
August 11, 2023
3,25 猸愶笍 :) such a different type of book
May 20, 2012
The genius of Boris Vian never tires. He lived five lives in one - and one of his great identities is Vernon Sullivan. Vian's love of pulp literature is an outlet of his terror fantasies of what America is at the time of the writing of this novel - late 1940's. This book reads like a Hardy Boys young adult novel with sex and mixed in the soup great pulp science fiction touches. A remarkable entertaining read. Oh and i published it!
January 26, 2021
Mitos yay谋nlar谋ndan 莽谋km谋艧 kitab谋 okudum. 脟eviri iyi olsayd谋 daha zevkli bir okuma olabilirdi.
July 19, 2024
袛褍卸械 械锌邪褌邪卸薪芯 褟泻 薪邪 1948 褉褨泻, 邪谢械 褌懈屑 薪械 屑械薪褕 褑褨泻邪胁芯. 孝邪泻邪 褋芯斜褨 褨褉芯薪褨褔薪邪 褍褌芯锌褨褟 锌褉芯 褋胁褨褌 褨写械邪谢褜薪懈褏 谢褞写械泄.
October 22, 2024
袧械 褌邪泻 胁褋械 褋褌褉邪褕薪芯, 褟泻 屑械薪械 谢褟泻邪谢懈.
些芯褋褜 屑械薪械 褌邪泻 锌芯锌械褉械写卸邪谢懈, 褖芯 袙褨邪薪 邪卸 褌邪泻懈泄 褋锌械褑懈褎褨褔薪懈泄, 邪 屑械薪褨 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 薪芯褉屑馃槄
携泻斜懈 褑褟 泻薪懈谐邪 斜褍谢邪 褋褌芯褉褨薪芯泻 400, 邪 薪械 200, 褌芯 褟 斜 褋泻芯褉褨褕 蟹邪 胁褋械 锌谢褞胁邪谢邪褋褜, 邪 褌邪泻 褌褍褌 褔懈褌邪薪薪褟 褌褉芯褏懈 斜褨谢褜褕械 写胁芯褏 谐芯写懈薪, 褌芯卸 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 屑芯卸薪邪 锌褉芯胁械褋褌懈 胁械褔褨褉, 邪谢械 褟 薪械 蟹薪邪褞 褔懈 胁邪褉褌芯. 袗斜芯 褔懈褌邪泄褌械 蟹 泻懈屑芯褋褜, 褖芯斜 斜褍谢芯 泻芯屑褍 泻褉懈褔邪褌懈.
袙蟹邪谐邪谢褨 胁褉邪卸械薪薪褟, 褖芯 褟 锌芯写懈胁懈谢邪褋褜 褟泻懈泄褋褜 邪褉褌谐邪褍褋薪懈泄 褎褨谢褜屑. 袨褌 斜褍胁邪褦 褌邪泻械 鈥� 薪邪褔械 褨 泻邪褉褌懈薪泻邪 锌褉懈胁邪斜谢懈胁邪, 褨 褟泻褨褋褜 褑褨泻邪胁褨 褉械卸懈褋械褉褋褜泻褨 褔懈 芯锌械褉邪褌芯褉褋褜泻褨 褉褨褕械薪薪褟, 褨 胁褨写 芯泻褉械屑懈褏 屑芯屑械薪褌褨胁 薪械 胁褨写褨褉胁邪褌懈褋褜. 袗谢械 褎褨谢褜屑 蟹邪胁械褉褕褍褦褌褜褋褟 褨 褌懈 褋懈写懈褕 锌褉芯褋褌芯 芦邪 褕芯斜 褕芯 褟 胁懈褌褉邪褌懈谢邪 薪邪 褑械 泻褨谢褜泻邪 谐芯写懈薪 褋胁芯谐芯 卸懈褌褌褟?禄. 袨褌 褌邪泻 褨 蟹 褑褨褦褞 泻薪懈谐芯褞. 袙芯薪邪 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 谢械谐泻芯 褔懈褌邪褦褌褜褋褟, 褌褍褌 斜邪谐邪褌芯 褋锌械褑懈褎褨褔薪芯谐芯, 邪谢械 谐褍屑芯褉褍, 褦 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈褔薪褨 械谢械屑械薪褌懈, 褦 褋邪褌懈褉邪, 褦 械泻褕薪.
袗谢械 褟泻褖芯 胁懈 锌褉芯泄写械褌械 锌芯胁蟹 鈥� 薪褨褔芯谐芯 薪械 胁褌褉邪褌懈褌械.
馃悏 袣薪懈卸泻芯胁邪 袛褉邪泻芯薪泻邪
些芯褋褜 屑械薪械 褌邪泻 锌芯锌械褉械写卸邪谢懈, 褖芯 袙褨邪薪 邪卸 褌邪泻懈泄 褋锌械褑懈褎褨褔薪懈泄, 邪 屑械薪褨 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 薪芯褉屑馃槄
携泻斜懈 褑褟 泻薪懈谐邪 斜褍谢邪 褋褌芯褉褨薪芯泻 400, 邪 薪械 200, 褌芯 褟 斜 褋泻芯褉褨褕 蟹邪 胁褋械 锌谢褞胁邪谢邪褋褜, 邪 褌邪泻 褌褍褌 褔懈褌邪薪薪褟 褌褉芯褏懈 斜褨谢褜褕械 写胁芯褏 谐芯写懈薪, 褌芯卸 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 屑芯卸薪邪 锌褉芯胁械褋褌懈 胁械褔褨褉, 邪谢械 褟 薪械 蟹薪邪褞 褔懈 胁邪褉褌芯. 袗斜芯 褔懈褌邪泄褌械 蟹 泻懈屑芯褋褜, 褖芯斜 斜褍谢芯 泻芯屑褍 泻褉懈褔邪褌懈.
袙蟹邪谐邪谢褨 胁褉邪卸械薪薪褟, 褖芯 褟 锌芯写懈胁懈谢邪褋褜 褟泻懈泄褋褜 邪褉褌谐邪褍褋薪懈泄 褎褨谢褜屑. 袨褌 斜褍胁邪褦 褌邪泻械 鈥� 薪邪褔械 褨 泻邪褉褌懈薪泻邪 锌褉懈胁邪斜谢懈胁邪, 褨 褟泻褨褋褜 褑褨泻邪胁褨 褉械卸懈褋械褉褋褜泻褨 褔懈 芯锌械褉邪褌芯褉褋褜泻褨 褉褨褕械薪薪褟, 褨 胁褨写 芯泻褉械屑懈褏 屑芯屑械薪褌褨胁 薪械 胁褨写褨褉胁邪褌懈褋褜. 袗谢械 褎褨谢褜屑 蟹邪胁械褉褕褍褦褌褜褋褟 褨 褌懈 褋懈写懈褕 锌褉芯褋褌芯 芦邪 褕芯斜 褕芯 褟 胁懈褌褉邪褌懈谢邪 薪邪 褑械 泻褨谢褜泻邪 谐芯写懈薪 褋胁芯谐芯 卸懈褌褌褟?禄. 袨褌 褌邪泻 褨 蟹 褑褨褦褞 泻薪懈谐芯褞. 袙芯薪邪 胁 锌褉懈薪褑懈锌褨 谢械谐泻芯 褔懈褌邪褦褌褜褋褟, 褌褍褌 斜邪谐邪褌芯 褋锌械褑懈褎褨褔薪芯谐芯, 邪谢械 谐褍屑芯褉褍, 褦 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈褔薪褨 械谢械屑械薪褌懈, 褦 褋邪褌懈褉邪, 褦 械泻褕薪.
袗谢械 褟泻褖芯 胁懈 锌褉芯泄写械褌械 锌芯胁蟹 鈥� 薪褨褔芯谐芯 薪械 胁褌褉邪褌懈褌械.
馃悏 袣薪懈卸泻芯胁邪 袛褉邪泻芯薪泻邪
February 3, 2019
A pesar de haber odiado personalmente al protagonista por su elevado egocentrismo que expon铆a a gritos cuando ten铆a la oportunidad, "Que se mueran los feos" cuenta con una trama que envuelven al lector, como tambi茅n da a pensar sobre lo que, seguramente, pasa constantemente en la mente de muchas personas hoy en d铆a: que vengan los atractivos y al diablo con los innatos f铆sicamente; que la belleza f铆sica importe m谩s que cualquier otra cosa. (De hecho, y por lo que tengo entendido, 茅sta obra es una cr铆tica a la sociedad elitista de Par铆s durante la posguerra)
No me gust贸 para nada que, de golpe, el nombre de los personajes, las distintas bandas que se mencionan y las situaciones en las que Rookie se met铆a se hayan presentado tan secamente; inclusive me vi en la necesidad de retroceder la lectura porque ten铆a que volver unas p谩ginas para aclarar qui茅n era qui茅n.
Adem谩s, hay un perro que habla, que agradable.
No me gust贸 para nada que, de golpe, el nombre de los personajes, las distintas bandas que se mencionan y las situaciones en las que Rookie se met铆a se hayan presentado tan secamente; inclusive me vi en la necesidad de retroceder la lectura porque ten铆a que volver unas p谩ginas para aclarar qui茅n era qui茅n.
Adem谩s, hay un perro que habla, que agradable.
July 31, 2017
de plus en plus d茅lirant au fil des pages, un style tr猫s proche d'une bande dessin茅e avec beaucoup de gags aussi dr么les qu'inattendus ! C'est comme lire une aventure de Tintin en plus loufoque et d茅vergond茅, avec le langage Vian en plus !
August 3, 2022
Rock Bailey, un aut茅ntico Chad. Y su padre, el Boris, el original machitroll. A diferencia de los que pululan ahora, estos son deveras graciosos. Me he divertido mucho, a pesar de todo lo est煤pido y ca贸tico de esta historia de gente en cueros.
August 6, 2012
Ve B眉t眉n 脟irkinler 脰ld眉r眉lecek
脟eviri y眉z眉nden odaklanmada sorun ya艧ad谋m. Ba艧lar iyiydi ama ortalarda biraz s谋k谋ld谋m sonu ise ger莽ekten iyiydi, g眉lerek kapatt谋m kitab谋.
脟eviri y眉z眉nden odaklanmada sorun ya艧ad谋m. Ba艧lar iyiydi ama ortalarda biraz s谋k谋ld谋m sonu ise ger莽ekten iyiydi, g眉lerek kapatt谋m kitab谋.
May 11, 2022
Todav铆a no s茅 qu茅 pienso de esta novela delirante, ni si mi opini贸n es definitiva. Lo que s茅 es que, tras haberla arrancado, me la devor茅 casi de un bocado.
June 27, 2023
Wtf??!?
May 2, 2024
胁芯谢芯谐邪 褋械泻褋 屑褉褨褟 斜芯褉懈褋邪 胁褨邪薪邪 薪邪 208 褋褌芯褉褨薪芯泻
January 12, 2019
review of
Boris Vian's To Hell With The Ugly
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 11-12, 2019
I've read mention of the writing of Boris Vian for more than 4 decades. I recall him being a writer that the Surrealists liked. That wd usually be enuf to get me to read his work. &, yet.. This is the 1st bk by him I've read. &, YES!, it was great! It's a good imitation of American hard-boiled crime fiction imaginatively mixed w/ utter absurdism. I loved it.
The book design is by Tom Recchion. I met him thru my friend Peter Zahorecz in 1989 when we went to the west coast of the US for the Without Borders anarchist gathering & then meandered south to LA. The publisher, Tosh Berman, is a 'friend' on 欧宝娱乐, someone who shares similar literary tastes to my own.
"When my publisher, Tosh Berman, asked me to describe it for him, I said, "Imagine a pornographic Hardy Boys novel set on the Island of Dr. Moreau to a bebop soundtrack." I think that's a pretty good tagline" - p I
I often become engrossed in a film from the beginning, from the title sequence. Same thing for a bk: the 1st paragraph can be a pretty good indication of the quality or lack thereof of what follows. Of course, authors are conscious of this & write accordingly:
"Taking a smack on the head is nothing. Even being drugged twice during the course of the same evening is something a guy can live with. But stepping outside for a bit of fresh air and then all of a suddent coming to in your birthday suit in a room with a naked woman, well I'd say that's when things started to get weird. As for what happened next..." - p 1
The main character, who narrated the above, is a 19 year old body-builder who's made a vow to himself to not have sex until he turns 20. A part of the humor of the bk is all about the preposterous obstacles in the way of his keeping his vow.
""Let's dance some more," she proposes, just as Lem Hamilton starts playing a new number.
""No thanks," I say. "You're going to end up leading me into depravity, and my training doesn't permit that sort of thing. I'd be happy, nevertheless, to buy you a drink."
""So your training permits you to drink?" she shoots back, just like that.
""Of course." It's Douglas who confirms this. He hasn't missed a word of our conversation. "Listen, Sunday. Don't try to seduce ol' Rocky here. He's unwavering, and all the girls that chase after him just end up running into a brick wall.["]" - p 6
""Who brought me here?" I ask. "Where are we? I want to know what this business is all about and just what it's supposed to mean. What would you say if someone doped you up and dragged you off to some room you'd never seen before? If they left you there, stark naked, and then sent in some guy whose intentions were all too obvious?"" - pp 11-12
It just gets better & better.
""Who's Wolf Petrossian?" I ask. "I've never heard of the guy."
""Strange cat," murmurs Kilian. "He had his hands into everything... One of the only guys I've ever heard of who was pulling down dough by actually exploiting a convent."
""Jesus Christ! How'd he manage that?" I say.
""Under the pretext of making a cartoon about the life of Saint Martin," says Gary. "And he had all the nuns working as go-betweens.["]" - p 22
Every hard-boiled crime fiction novel has to have a fight.
"I'm rolling around the floor like a bowling pin because one of them has tackled me by the legs... And what ensues is one of the toughest little fisticuffs I've ever seen in my life.
"That is if I could have actually seen it!" - p 59
To Hell With The Ugly was originally published in 1948. It seems to me that Vian's humorous take on sexuality was a bit precocious w/in the genre.
"This Mary Jackson is a nymphomaniac. Plain and simple. She finally leaves my legs alone and settles back into the seat where she wraps her arm around my neck. Jesus Christ Almighty! Seems that I'm always taken advantage of when I am in no position to defend myself.
"I've taken all I can: my head is covered with bruises, my back is killing me, my hands are tied, and this nut job is toying with me and getting her kicks subjecting me to a plethora of Merovingian perversions in the neighborhood of my zygomatic arch. All in a car heading to one Markus Schutz's estate. Dr. Markus Schutz. A man who abducts people in order to make them sleep together! And who has at his residence operating rooms where photos are taken..." - p 65
Never let it be sd that Vian doesn't push the plot right on along so some hand-grenades enter the picture.
"The guy from the first watchtower is trying to break free from the rubble. Judging from what we can hear, he's a bit injured from the fall, but being the selfish bastards we are this provokes absolutely no feeling of sympathy in us." - pp 74-76
Rocky & his companions meet their 1st artificially constructed human.
""What's your name?" asks Mike.
""You can call me what you like," he says. "Generally, they call me by my model number."" - p 79
""I'd like to," says Jef Devay (I prefer to call him by this name). "But I'll have to accompany you. I should, according to the rules, sound the alarm. But I am a misfit, and sometimes I don't follow the rules. If that were not the case, you'd already be dead, more or less."" - p 80
""That's enough," said Gary, cutting him off. "How do we get out of here?"
""Oh!" says Jef, suddenly all sophisticated, "it would be ridiculous and disagreeable to leave Dr. Schutz's model health establishment before visiting the incubation chambers and the laboratory for the acceleration of emryos. That way I could explain to you exactly and in detail how this accident happened to me, which I'm sure would be most fascinating for you."" - p 92
Yes, Jef Devay is a defective model. The series R are much better (r r) but, oh well.
""We'd better get out of here now," he says. "Dr. Schutz will be none too happy to see that you've killed a series R subject."" - p 91
"Fine, I'll say it! I was so frightened by that hideous monster that I wet my pants like a three year old, O.K.?" - p 92
As if Rocky's pissing himself isn't bad enuf, Jef has a complaint too.
""Hell," says Jef, disappointed. "You think this is fun, spending my life in a loony bin and pretending to like it? For once I finally get some visitors. The least you could do is pretend that you're interested. Listen. I've got something else to show you. I didn't really want to because I personally consider it a rather exhausting spectacle, but there's one more girl upstairs who's probably... Well, I won't ruin the surpise."" - p 96
There's just one misadventure after another.
""I accompanied her home," says Douglas, suddenly vehement. "I bought her dinner, took her to a movie, the whole shebang. The evening cost me forty-seven dollars. So I go up for a drink. I thought everything was cool, so I took off my clothes and she got all pissed off. I tried to kiss her and she smashed me in the face with an ashtray. She took off and slammed the door behind her, with my pants in her hands. She said I was welcome to sleep in her bed if that was what I wanted, but that she'd rather sleep alone than with a pervert, especially a pervert with a mug like mine. So I've got no more pants and I can't go home because my keys were inside. I spent the night here."" - pp 102-103
I suspect that the next bit is an inside joke that I don't get.
"I sat down next to Aubert George, who tells me about how he started off in life wanting to be an actor. The only play he was ever in ran for a grand total of one month and he had but ten or twelve lines. He played some guy who walks into a bookstore, asks for a book, and leaves. He told me the play was just bullshit (I'm quoting him word for word) but that everyone got a kick out of it." - p 113
Maybe the play alluded to is one of Vian's. Apparently that's not the case. "Vian also started writing plays, the first of which, L'脡quarrissage pour tous (Slaughter for Everyone), was staged the year it was written, 1950." ( ) In other words, Vian didn't write any plays until after this novel was written. Maybe he's alluding to a play he liked, maybe to one he didn't like. Maybe neither. Dunno.
If you don't have a sense of himor just open this bk to any page & rub it on yourself 3,408 times.
"I don't count the number of strides we're taking, but it must be somewhere between three thousand four hundred and seven and three thousand four hundred and nine when we emerge on the plain." - p 118
Boris Vian's To Hell With The Ugly
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 11-12, 2019
I've read mention of the writing of Boris Vian for more than 4 decades. I recall him being a writer that the Surrealists liked. That wd usually be enuf to get me to read his work. &, yet.. This is the 1st bk by him I've read. &, YES!, it was great! It's a good imitation of American hard-boiled crime fiction imaginatively mixed w/ utter absurdism. I loved it.
The book design is by Tom Recchion. I met him thru my friend Peter Zahorecz in 1989 when we went to the west coast of the US for the Without Borders anarchist gathering & then meandered south to LA. The publisher, Tosh Berman, is a 'friend' on 欧宝娱乐, someone who shares similar literary tastes to my own.
"When my publisher, Tosh Berman, asked me to describe it for him, I said, "Imagine a pornographic Hardy Boys novel set on the Island of Dr. Moreau to a bebop soundtrack." I think that's a pretty good tagline" - p I
I often become engrossed in a film from the beginning, from the title sequence. Same thing for a bk: the 1st paragraph can be a pretty good indication of the quality or lack thereof of what follows. Of course, authors are conscious of this & write accordingly:
"Taking a smack on the head is nothing. Even being drugged twice during the course of the same evening is something a guy can live with. But stepping outside for a bit of fresh air and then all of a suddent coming to in your birthday suit in a room with a naked woman, well I'd say that's when things started to get weird. As for what happened next..." - p 1
The main character, who narrated the above, is a 19 year old body-builder who's made a vow to himself to not have sex until he turns 20. A part of the humor of the bk is all about the preposterous obstacles in the way of his keeping his vow.
""Let's dance some more," she proposes, just as Lem Hamilton starts playing a new number.
""No thanks," I say. "You're going to end up leading me into depravity, and my training doesn't permit that sort of thing. I'd be happy, nevertheless, to buy you a drink."
""So your training permits you to drink?" she shoots back, just like that.
""Of course." It's Douglas who confirms this. He hasn't missed a word of our conversation. "Listen, Sunday. Don't try to seduce ol' Rocky here. He's unwavering, and all the girls that chase after him just end up running into a brick wall.["]" - p 6
""Who brought me here?" I ask. "Where are we? I want to know what this business is all about and just what it's supposed to mean. What would you say if someone doped you up and dragged you off to some room you'd never seen before? If they left you there, stark naked, and then sent in some guy whose intentions were all too obvious?"" - pp 11-12
It just gets better & better.
""Who's Wolf Petrossian?" I ask. "I've never heard of the guy."
""Strange cat," murmurs Kilian. "He had his hands into everything... One of the only guys I've ever heard of who was pulling down dough by actually exploiting a convent."
""Jesus Christ! How'd he manage that?" I say.
""Under the pretext of making a cartoon about the life of Saint Martin," says Gary. "And he had all the nuns working as go-betweens.["]" - p 22
Every hard-boiled crime fiction novel has to have a fight.
"I'm rolling around the floor like a bowling pin because one of them has tackled me by the legs... And what ensues is one of the toughest little fisticuffs I've ever seen in my life.
"That is if I could have actually seen it!" - p 59
To Hell With The Ugly was originally published in 1948. It seems to me that Vian's humorous take on sexuality was a bit precocious w/in the genre.
"This Mary Jackson is a nymphomaniac. Plain and simple. She finally leaves my legs alone and settles back into the seat where she wraps her arm around my neck. Jesus Christ Almighty! Seems that I'm always taken advantage of when I am in no position to defend myself.
"I've taken all I can: my head is covered with bruises, my back is killing me, my hands are tied, and this nut job is toying with me and getting her kicks subjecting me to a plethora of Merovingian perversions in the neighborhood of my zygomatic arch. All in a car heading to one Markus Schutz's estate. Dr. Markus Schutz. A man who abducts people in order to make them sleep together! And who has at his residence operating rooms where photos are taken..." - p 65
Never let it be sd that Vian doesn't push the plot right on along so some hand-grenades enter the picture.
"The guy from the first watchtower is trying to break free from the rubble. Judging from what we can hear, he's a bit injured from the fall, but being the selfish bastards we are this provokes absolutely no feeling of sympathy in us." - pp 74-76
Rocky & his companions meet their 1st artificially constructed human.
""What's your name?" asks Mike.
""You can call me what you like," he says. "Generally, they call me by my model number."" - p 79
""I'd like to," says Jef Devay (I prefer to call him by this name). "But I'll have to accompany you. I should, according to the rules, sound the alarm. But I am a misfit, and sometimes I don't follow the rules. If that were not the case, you'd already be dead, more or less."" - p 80
""That's enough," said Gary, cutting him off. "How do we get out of here?"
""Oh!" says Jef, suddenly all sophisticated, "it would be ridiculous and disagreeable to leave Dr. Schutz's model health establishment before visiting the incubation chambers and the laboratory for the acceleration of emryos. That way I could explain to you exactly and in detail how this accident happened to me, which I'm sure would be most fascinating for you."" - p 92
Yes, Jef Devay is a defective model. The series R are much better (r r) but, oh well.
""We'd better get out of here now," he says. "Dr. Schutz will be none too happy to see that you've killed a series R subject."" - p 91
"Fine, I'll say it! I was so frightened by that hideous monster that I wet my pants like a three year old, O.K.?" - p 92
As if Rocky's pissing himself isn't bad enuf, Jef has a complaint too.
""Hell," says Jef, disappointed. "You think this is fun, spending my life in a loony bin and pretending to like it? For once I finally get some visitors. The least you could do is pretend that you're interested. Listen. I've got something else to show you. I didn't really want to because I personally consider it a rather exhausting spectacle, but there's one more girl upstairs who's probably... Well, I won't ruin the surpise."" - p 96
There's just one misadventure after another.
""I accompanied her home," says Douglas, suddenly vehement. "I bought her dinner, took her to a movie, the whole shebang. The evening cost me forty-seven dollars. So I go up for a drink. I thought everything was cool, so I took off my clothes and she got all pissed off. I tried to kiss her and she smashed me in the face with an ashtray. She took off and slammed the door behind her, with my pants in her hands. She said I was welcome to sleep in her bed if that was what I wanted, but that she'd rather sleep alone than with a pervert, especially a pervert with a mug like mine. So I've got no more pants and I can't go home because my keys were inside. I spent the night here."" - pp 102-103
I suspect that the next bit is an inside joke that I don't get.
"I sat down next to Aubert George, who tells me about how he started off in life wanting to be an actor. The only play he was ever in ran for a grand total of one month and he had but ten or twelve lines. He played some guy who walks into a bookstore, asks for a book, and leaves. He told me the play was just bullshit (I'm quoting him word for word) but that everyone got a kick out of it." - p 113
Maybe the play alluded to is one of Vian's. Apparently that's not the case. "Vian also started writing plays, the first of which, L'脡quarrissage pour tous (Slaughter for Everyone), was staged the year it was written, 1950." ( ) In other words, Vian didn't write any plays until after this novel was written. Maybe he's alluding to a play he liked, maybe to one he didn't like. Maybe neither. Dunno.
If you don't have a sense of himor just open this bk to any page & rub it on yourself 3,408 times.
"I don't count the number of strides we're taking, but it must be somewhere between three thousand four hundred and seven and three thousand four hundred and nine when we emerge on the plain." - p 118
January 15, 2023
Kitab谋n kendine has dili, ilk b枚l眉mlerdeki 莽ok iyi tempo "harika bir kitap okuyorum" d眉艧眉ncesini olu艧tursa da ilerleyen k谋s谋mlarda mant谋ks谋zl谋k silsilesi olaylar sebebiyle kitaptan bir anda so臒udum. Zaten ana iki kahraman谋n hi莽bir gerek莽eye dayanmayan dedektif莽ilik oyunlar谋na daha yeni tan谋艧t谋klar谋 birka莽 adam谋n da sorgusuz sualsiz kat谋lmas谋 inand谋r谋c谋l谋臒谋 azaltan bir etken. Hadi g枚rmezden gelelim desek bile, zaten baz谋 艧eyleri halihaz谋rda g枚rmezden gelmi艧tik. Bir de gizem unsuru olan ana olay谋n ne oldu臒unu kitab谋n isminden dolay谋 o kadar 莽abuk kavr谋yorsunuz ki merak duygusu da yok olup gidiyor. Merak yok, mant谋k yok ee ben bu kitab谋 niye okuyay谋m? Sadece bitirmek i莽in bitirdim, 60 sayfay谋 3 g眉nde anca okuyarak...
August 14, 2023
No se si es la lectura que se le ha de dar a esta s铆ntesis de sexo y la violencia/cine negro en una s谩tira. Pero yo creo que muestra lo absurdo del elitismo o narcisismo. Al final, cuando el mundo se ve liberado de desigualdad y dolor, el hombre desesperado busca: alguien a quien mirar con desd茅n y de quien abusar o buscar confort en su inferioridad.
Primero evita el sexo en un ejercicio de disciplina. Segundo lo busca en uno de poder. La desigualdad en el amor y la sociedad parece inevitable. Y la igualdad es nada mas que una utop铆a incapaz de salvar estas inseguridades masculinas.
Me resulta incre铆ble que esto sea anterior a Alphaville y aun as铆 hable tanto de ella, y que siendo tan sencillo evoque a Un Mundo Feliz.
Primero evita el sexo en un ejercicio de disciplina. Segundo lo busca en uno de poder. La desigualdad en el amor y la sociedad parece inevitable. Y la igualdad es nada mas que una utop铆a incapaz de salvar estas inseguridades masculinas.
Me resulta incre铆ble que esto sea anterior a Alphaville y aun as铆 hable tanto de ella, y que siendo tan sencillo evoque a Un Mundo Feliz.
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