- Taschenbuch: 704 Seiten
- Verlag: Bantam; Auflage: Reissue (1. November 1988)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0553173278
- ISBN-13: 978-0553275971
- ASIN: 0553275976
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,4 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (69 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 37.364 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down.
You might find it interesting to compare the film The Bonfire of the Vanities, a fascinating calamity perpetrated by the geniuses Brian De Palma and Tom Hanks, with The Right Stuff, one of the very best films of the '80s. --Tim Appelo
From Library Journal
Insulation is the key to living in New York, according to millionaire bond salesman Sherman McCoyinsulation from "them." So when he makes a wrong turn one night and finds himself driving through the South Bronx in his Mercedes, he panics. In his haste to get back to Manhattan he sideswipes a pedestrian; made tabloid news by a sleazy reporter, the incident has every politician in town crying for McCoy's blood. As some critics have long maintained, Wolfe's genius may be better suited to fiction than to journalism; his novel has all the knowledge, insight, and wit of earlier works but tones down the notorious stylistic excesses. The result is not just Wolfe's most successful book to date but one of the most impressive novels of the decade. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
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Tom Wolfe's kinetic style of writing takes some getting used to. He piles words on top of words, images on top of images, flinging them all at the reader with a fastball pitch. The pitch, though, is well-thrown.
Wolfe's subject is New York City during the 1980s. He touches as many groups as he can -- wealthy Upper East Side socialites, tabloid journalists, criminals and burnt-out agents of justice in the Bronx, cut-throat sleazy lawyers, unscrupulous Wall Street stockbrokers... No class of people escapes having its faults exposed in Wolfe's sharp, accurate prose.
Wolfe is sociologist first, novelist second. He probes the psychology of all these disparate groups and finds a common denominator: selfishness. All people are out for themselves no matter who is destroyed along the way.
At the same time he satirizes the dark side of the human experience, Wolfe makes it impossible to hate any of the characters. There is no true villain in this story. As readers, we are left with just the uncomfortable sensation of recognizing human nature's ugly parts.
"How much differently would you act in this situation?" is Wolfe's implicit question. There are no easy answers.
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I have been a Tom Wolfe fan for over two decades but continue to think that his real talent is for the essay and not for long fiction. Like Mailer, he seems to be able to string words together with unnerring skill but has trouble sustaining a tight narrative. Mostly, for me, what kept this book from coming alive was my dislike for the main characters. I just didn't care what happened to them. Rather, nothing could be bad enough. This is pure prejudice on my part, but I can't get past it. I hate these folks - their lifestyle, their values, their friends, their work, their entire social world - and I really don't want to read about them. Certainly not read this many pages. Couldn't he have punctured the hero's little life in half the number of pages and not left the reader so numb?
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I'm not sure why this book got so many five star reviews. It's not a terrible book, but I found it to be incrediably predictable and dull. I had pretty much figured out everything that was going to happen within the first hundred pages or so. There wasn't much point in finishing it. I love long books, but this one was pointlessly so. Wolfe goes into a lot of useless rambling that has little if nothing to do with the plot. I found myself skimming many of the pages without feeling I has missed out on anything important. Definately the sort of book you read only if there is nothing else around.
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Was habe ich um dieses Buch einen Bogen gemacht. Obwohl ich Tom Wolfe eigentlich mag. Schuld daran ist die entsetzliche Verfilmung des Buches von Brian de Palma mit Bruce Willis... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Januar 2007 von Hans Dirk Schellnack
A magnificent masterpiece
Iam more than happy that I finally read the book, although I knew about it for a long time. during my free-time I read a lot and this book was a terrific read, one of the best... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Dezember 2002 von Thorsten Mühl
Things you might notice and things you might not like
The first thing that struck me, after reading a synopsis of Bonfire, is that its impetus is similar to the climax of The Great Gatsby. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von Adam E. Silbestein
Misconceived, badly written...why, Lord, oh why?
Tom Wolfe's reputation as a good writer is one of those things that escapes me, rather like the appeal of figure-skating and the music of Dean Friedman. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juli 2000 von "lexo-2"
Horrible disappointment
Perhaps I expected too much after hearing so many good things about this book. But I found it one of the most dull works of fiction I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juli 2000 von Christopher M. Adams
Modern classic
Bonfire of the Vanities is a marvelous achievement: By turns, it doubles you over with laughter, causes you to pause and linger over a sublimely-written paragraph and shocks you... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 2000 von Jeff
Fabulous
Reading "Bonfire of the Vanities" is the best thing happened to me this year. The novel is one of the best I've read in my life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juni 2000 von R. Aamer
a top 10 of all time favorite
Woolf is a genius -- this is one of the most enjoyable and interesting novels you may ever read. No where has the ego and greed of Wall Street in its heyday been so exposed along... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von M. H. Bayliss
Great Book but leaves you hanging.
I loved A Man in Full and Bonfire was equal to the task. The book read well and the Dickensian descriptions showed up but not enough to be put off by them. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. April 2000 von Neil Montovani
Fascinating how these characters change
Somehow I'd missed reading Bonfire of the Vanities back when it came out. Now I see why it's considered a modern classic. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. April 2000 von Ann Watrous
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