Book of Numbers
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Praised by The New York Times as being "More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade... a wheeling meditation on what being human in the age of binary code might mean," Book of Numbers is the breakout literary sensation of 2015.
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Praised by The New York Times as being "More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade... a wheeling meditation on what being human in the age of binary code might mean," Book of Numbers is the breakout literary sensation of 2015.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The NetanyahusNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Shatteringly powerful . . . I cannot think of anything by anyone in [Cohen s] generation that is so frighteningly relevant and composed with such continuous eloquence. There are moments in it that seem to transcend our impasse. Harold Bloom
The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.
Insider tech exposé, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual.
Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Praise for Book of Numbers
The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . . Book of Numbers is a fascinating look
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at the dark heart of the Web. . . . A page-turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet. Rolling Stone
A startlingly talented novelist. The Wall Street Journal
Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books
A startlingly talented novelist. The Wall Street Journal
Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books
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8/27? 28? two days before end of RamadanIf you re reading this on a screen, fuck off. I ll only talk if I m gripped with both hands.
Paper of pulp, covers of board and cloth, the thread from threadstuff or what are bindings made of? hair and plant fibers, glue from boiled horsehooves?
The paperback was compromise enough. And that s what I ve become: paper spine, paper limbs, brain of cheapo crumpled paper, the final type that publishers used before surrendering to the touch displays, that bad thin four-times-deinked recycled crap, 100% acidfree postconsumer waste.
I have very few books with me here Hitler s Secretary: A Firsthand Account, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, whatever was on the sales table at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, and in the langues anglais section of the FNAC on the Rue de Rennes books I m using as models, paragons of what to avoid.
I m writing a memoir, of course half bio, half autobio, it feels I m writing the memoir of a man not me.
It begins in a resort, a suite.
I m holed up here, blackout shades downed, drowned in loud media, all to keep from having to deal with yet another country outside the window.
If I d kept the eyemask and earplugs from the jet, I wouldn t even have to describe this, there s nothing worse than description: hotel room prose. No, characterization is worse. No, dialogue is. Suffice it to say that these pillows are each the size of the bed I used to share in NY. Anyway this isn t quite a hotel. It s a cemetery for people both deceased and on vacation, who still check in daily with work.
As for yours truly, I ve been sitting with my laptop atop a pillow on my lap to keep those wireless hotspot waveparticles from reaching my genitals and frying my sperm, searching up with my employer s technology myself, and Rach.
My wife, my ex, my x2b.
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Living by the check, by the log living remotely, capitalhopping, skipping borders, jumping timezones, yet always with that equatorial chain of
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blinking beeping messages to maintain, what Principal calls the conversation it gets lonely.
For the both of us.
Making tours of the local offices, or just of overpriced museums to live in. Claridge s, Hôtel de Crillon. Meeting with British staff to discuss removing the UK Only option from the homepage. Meeting French staff to discuss the .Fr launch of Autotet. Granting angel audiences to the CEOs of Yalp and Ilinx. Being pitched, but not catching, a new parkour exergame and a betting app for fantasy rugby.
This was micromanaging, microminimanaging. Nondelegation, demotion (voluntary), absorption of duties (insourcing), dirtytasking. All of them at once. In the lexicon of the prevailing techsperanto.
This was Principal spun like a boson just trying to keep it, keep everything, together.
At least until Europe was behind us and we could stay ensuite, he could stay seated, in interviews with me. Between the naps, interviewing for me.
You call the person you re writing the principal and mine is basically the internet, the web that s how he s positioned, that s how he s converged: the man who helped to invent the thing, rather the man who helped it to invent us, in the process shredding the hell out of the paper I ve dedicated my life to. Though don t for a moment assume he regards it as, what? ironic or wry? that now, at our mutual attainment of 40 (his birthday just behind him, mine just ahead), he s feeling the urge to put his life down in writing, into writing on paper.
He has no time for irony or wryness. He has time for only himself.
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cant wait 4 wknd, Rach updates.
margaritas tonite #marys
For the both of us.
Making tours of the local offices, or just of overpriced museums to live in. Claridge s, Hôtel de Crillon. Meeting with British staff to discuss removing the UK Only option from the homepage. Meeting French staff to discuss the .Fr launch of Autotet. Granting angel audiences to the CEOs of Yalp and Ilinx. Being pitched, but not catching, a new parkour exergame and a betting app for fantasy rugby.
This was micromanaging, microminimanaging. Nondelegation, demotion (voluntary), absorption of duties (insourcing), dirtytasking. All of them at once. In the lexicon of the prevailing techsperanto.
This was Principal spun like a boson just trying to keep it, keep everything, together.
At least until Europe was behind us and we could stay ensuite, he could stay seated, in interviews with me. Between the naps, interviewing for me.
You call the person you re writing the principal and mine is basically the internet, the web that s how he s positioned, that s how he s converged: the man who helped to invent the thing, rather the man who helped it to invent us, in the process shredding the hell out of the paper I ve dedicated my life to. Though don t for a moment assume he regards it as, what? ironic or wry? that now, at our mutual attainment of 40 (his birthday just behind him, mine just ahead), he s feeling the urge to put his life down in writing, into writing on paper.
He has no time for irony or wryness. He has time for only himself.
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cant wait 4 wknd, Rach updates.
margaritas tonite #marys
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Autoren-Porträt von Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short-fiction collection Four New Messages, and the nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Cohen was awarded Israel s 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joshua Cohen
- 2016, 592 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0812986652
- ISBN-13: 9780812986655
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Book of Numbers . . . is shatteringly powerful. I cannot think of anything by anyone in [Cohen s] generation that is so frighteningly relevant and composed with such continuous eloquence. There are moments in it that seem to transcend our impasse. Harold BloomMore impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer. The New York Times
The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . . Joshua Cohen s Book of Numbers is a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web. . . . A page-turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet . . . At its heart, Book of Numbers is an attempt to reclaim a sense of humanity in the digital age. Rolling Stone
Joshua Cohen is a startlingly talented novelist. . . . [His] deeply rewarding novel is about an online religion gone wrong and its importance lies in the fact that nearly all of us in the modernized world are members of that faith, whether we know it or not. The Wall Street Journal
Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books
A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now. It is a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures: clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing. Colm Tóibín, The Guardian
Joshua Cohen is the Great American Novelist. . . . Like Pynchon and Wallace, Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything. . . . Cohen has turned the tables on the Internet:
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Instead of being reduced by its omniscience, he forces it to serve his imaginative purposes. . . . If John Henry is going to compete with the steam engine, he needs an almost superhuman energy and intelligence of his own and if any writer has it, it is Joshua Cohen. Adam Kirsch, Tablet
A digital-age Ulysses. The New York Times Book Review
The next candidate for the Great American Novel . . . David Foster Wallace level audacious. Details
A brilliant book. The Boston Globe
Frequently hilarious high satire of our digital world . . . a book after William Gaddis s heart that will be around well after most summer reads have been recycled (or deleted). New York
[A] monstrous talent and restive, roiling intellect . . . Other recent literary novels have treated the dot-com-mania reboot, its flagship companies, and their disruptive technologies Pynchon s Bleeding Edge, Dave Eggers s The Circle but Cohen s is the best. Bookforum
Reading Cohen s magnum opus is a lot like falling down an Internet wormhole. In Numbers, you ll find an international mystery, a fake memoir, a modern retelling of the biblical Book of Numbers, a sex romp, and a bunch of leaked documents. Think David Foster Wallace meets David Mitchell meets the search history that you just cleared. Beast. Esquire
Book of Numbers has been called both the Great Internet Novel and the Great American Novel. The book, published by Cohen at the age of thirty-four, succeeds at doing to the Internet what David Foster Wallace s Infinite Jest also published when its author was thirty-four attempted to do to television. It humanizes it. Flavorwire
An urgent and necessary sign of life in U.S. literature. The Rumpus
Book of Numbers is alive with humor and insight. Cohen has been compared to Philip Roth multiple times, but the similarities are perhaps most obvious in this book. The A.V. Club
An ambitious and inspired attempt at the Great American Internet Novel . . . Cohen s encyclopedic epic is about many things language, art, divinity, narrative, desire, global politics, surveillance, consumerism, genealogy but it is above all a standout novel about the Internet, humanity s first mutual culture, in which our identities are increasingly defined by a series of ones and zeroes. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
An investigation of the technologies that mediate our collective fears and desires . . . [Book of Numbers] will appeal to readers with an appreciation for experimental fiction and the ever-expanding limits of language. Library Journal (starred review)
[Cohen] recognizes the laughs and peril at this technologically challenging stage of the human comedy and its new questions about what people are searching for, how the results may affect them, and what it all may cost. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A digital-age Ulysses. The New York Times Book Review
The next candidate for the Great American Novel . . . David Foster Wallace level audacious. Details
A brilliant book. The Boston Globe
Frequently hilarious high satire of our digital world . . . a book after William Gaddis s heart that will be around well after most summer reads have been recycled (or deleted). New York
[A] monstrous talent and restive, roiling intellect . . . Other recent literary novels have treated the dot-com-mania reboot, its flagship companies, and their disruptive technologies Pynchon s Bleeding Edge, Dave Eggers s The Circle but Cohen s is the best. Bookforum
Reading Cohen s magnum opus is a lot like falling down an Internet wormhole. In Numbers, you ll find an international mystery, a fake memoir, a modern retelling of the biblical Book of Numbers, a sex romp, and a bunch of leaked documents. Think David Foster Wallace meets David Mitchell meets the search history that you just cleared. Beast. Esquire
Book of Numbers has been called both the Great Internet Novel and the Great American Novel. The book, published by Cohen at the age of thirty-four, succeeds at doing to the Internet what David Foster Wallace s Infinite Jest also published when its author was thirty-four attempted to do to television. It humanizes it. Flavorwire
An urgent and necessary sign of life in U.S. literature. The Rumpus
Book of Numbers is alive with humor and insight. Cohen has been compared to Philip Roth multiple times, but the similarities are perhaps most obvious in this book. The A.V. Club
An ambitious and inspired attempt at the Great American Internet Novel . . . Cohen s encyclopedic epic is about many things language, art, divinity, narrative, desire, global politics, surveillance, consumerism, genealogy but it is above all a standout novel about the Internet, humanity s first mutual culture, in which our identities are increasingly defined by a series of ones and zeroes. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
An investigation of the technologies that mediate our collective fears and desires . . . [Book of Numbers] will appeal to readers with an appreciation for experimental fiction and the ever-expanding limits of language. Library Journal (starred review)
[Cohen] recognizes the laughs and peril at this technologically challenging stage of the human comedy and its new questions about what people are searching for, how the results may affect them, and what it all may cost. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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