The Eyre Affair
(Sprache: Englisch)
So hätte es sein können, wäre Wales 1985 eine Sowjetrepublik gewesen: Menschen gehen in Gedichten von Wordsworth verloren. Jane Eyre wird in einer feigen Zurschaustellung von literarischem Vandalismus entführt. Diese Fälle sind das täglich Brot für...
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So hätte es sein können, wäre Wales 1985 eine Sowjetrepublik gewesen: Menschen gehen in Gedichten von Wordsworth verloren. Jane Eyre wird in einer feigen Zurschaustellung von literarischem Vandalismus entführt. Diese Fälle sind das täglich Brot für Literaturdetektivin Thursday Next, deren Hartnäckigkeit so bemerkenswert ist wie ihr Liebesleben verheerend.
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There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next. In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a feisty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away.
Autoren-Porträt von Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky.Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.
Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jasper Fforde
- 2001, 373 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN-10: 034073356X
- ISBN-13: 9780340733561
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Eyre Affair “
What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. 'The Eyre Affair' is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce -- Independent It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord. Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters -- Time Out Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously -- Terry Pratchett Surely a cult in the making -- Marie Clare
Pressezitat
It's 1985 in England, at least on the calendar; the Crimean War is in its hundred-and-thirty-first year; time travel is nothing new; Japanese tourists slip in and out of Victorian novels; and the literary branch of the special police, led gamely by the beguiling Thursday Next, are pursuing Acheron Hades, who has stolen the manuscript of "Martin Chuzzlewit" and set his sights on kidnapping the character Jane Eyre, a theft that could have disastrous consequences for Brontë lovers who like their story straight. This rambunctious caper could be taken as a warning about what might happen if society considered literature really important-like, say, energy futures or accounting. The New Yorker 20050701
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