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The Coma
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Slight but entertaining, this Mobius strip of a novel should fuel the cult following that Garland cultivated among twentysomethings with The Beach (1996) and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, which imagined an England overrun by zombies. Like that film, this book follows a man who awakens from a coma inside a London hospital. But in this case, the dawning horrors he faces might all be inside his head. What we know, or think we know, is that the man's name is Carl. One night, on the last train home, he stands to intervene when a gang of young toughs accosts a fellow passenger. The next thing Carl knows, he is in the hospital trying to swim back to consciousness. From there, the spare, sly story takes several Kafkaesque turns, its foreboding mood heightened by the woodblock illustrations of Garland's father. We watch, admiring, as Carl dopes out his states of consciousness and logically navigates a course back toward normal. But just when the facts start coming into focus, the view blurs up again, and we cannot help but smile. Frank Sennett
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"'The Coma is an unpaginated descent into a hall of mirrors, wherein the writer wants to play games with your head... it's a chilly mood piece - its shadowy tone redolent of Poe and Kafka (and its murky imaginative contours heightened by a series of dark woodcut illustrations by Garland's father)... a strange compelling ride into that realm where nothing is what it seems - and where night never really wakes up.' Douglas Kennedy, The Times 'It's a great story to read, but also a lovely visual object to possess.' Design Week 'Compelling and chilling... his father's illustrations heighten the oddness' Observer"
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All fans of Alex Garland, like myself, have been waiting for a new publication, and here it is. Finally!
Again, Garland is telling his story in a way that makes the reader wonder what is actually going on. Like in his former works, he leads you in one direction, yet the attentive reader who knows Garland should be prepared for a totally different ending from what might be expected at first sight.
The story is very well written, never boring, yet - as always when reading Garland - over too soon. You want to read more, and are left with your own thoughts and interpretations.
Even though "The Coma" is totally different from "The Beach" and "The Tesseract", it does resemble his contribution to "The Weekenders" a little, yet without being the same thing.
Fans of Alex Garland will love "The Coma", and those who have never read any of his stories will definitely get an insight on his way of writing and will stand a good chance of getting just as addicted to him as I am.
An ultimate must-read!
Again, Garland is telling his story in a way that makes the reader wonder what is actually going on. Like in his former works, he leads you in one direction, yet the attentive reader who knows Garland should be prepared for a totally different ending from what might be expected at first sight.
The story is very well written, never boring, yet - as always when reading Garland - over too soon. You want to read more, and are left with your own thoughts and interpretations.
Even though "The Coma" is totally different from "The Beach" and "The Tesseract", it does resemble his contribution to "The Weekenders" a little, yet without being the same thing.
Fans of Alex Garland will love "The Coma", and those who have never read any of his stories will definitely get an insight on his way of writing and will stand a good chance of getting just as addicted to him as I am.
An ultimate must-read!
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In his new story, more a novella than a novel, Alex Garland, author of "The Beach", sends his readers on an odyssey through the depths of the unconscious (but still conscious) human mind. Protagonist Carl seemingly awakes from a coma after being knocked down only to find that he hasn't actually woken up but still lingers in a dream life. This dream life resembles waking life in a lot of details but has its oddities that set it apart sharply from the real world. In this world of his mind, Carl tries to find a trigger to wake him up.
This is truly a great book. It is thrilling at at times, and at times disturbing, but always gripping. The language is very clear as opposed to the winded plot of dream life. It is a must-read, I think!
This is truly a great book. It is thrilling at at times, and at times disturbing, but always gripping. The language is very clear as opposed to the winded plot of dream life. It is a must-read, I think!
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In faszinierend kühler, quecksilbriger Prosa entwirft Garland das Portrait eines sich selbst entfremdeten Menschen in einem "Land der letzten Dinge", in dem alles möglich ist, aber nichts hilft. Die Koma - Welt - eine ähnlich geschlossene Gesellschaft wie die Aussteigerkolonie in "The Beach", das unter Quarantäne stehende Manila in "The Tesseract" und das entvölkerte London in "28 Days Later - ist eine Metapher für eine völlig unverbindliche, seelenlose, deformierte Gesellschaft. Der kühle, gelegentlich an Pinter und Beckett erinnernde Ton überdeckt die Verzweiflung des Protagonisten wie eine dünne Eisschicht. Die düsteren, ebenso eleganten wie bedrückenden Holzschnitte des Vaters des Autors machen diesen Kurzroman zu einem echten Erlebnis (die kindische, kleinliche und peinliche Vermutung, diese Holzschnitte dienten lediglich dazu, den Umfang des Buches zu vergrößern, werde ich nicht durch einen Kommentar aufwerten). Rätselhaft, verschlüsselt und die Phantasie anregend, ist dies eine Art literarischer David Lynch - jedenfalls könnte ich mir eine Verfilmung durch diesen Regisseur gut vorstellen.
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