- Taschenbuch: 303 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage, London; Auflage: New ed. (5. August 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0099466929
- ISBN-13: 978-0099466925
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,8 x 10,4 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (25 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 662.648 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love. Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, The Fermata gains little from synopsis. The pleasure is literally in the text. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong."
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Were not the subject of Baker's novel pornography, one would speak without hesitation of its delicious wit. On the other hand, this is the story of a 35-year-old man who, by snapping his fingers or by resorting to some more desperate measure (for example, turning on a rubber-band stretching machine built by a woman at MIT), can and does stop time for the mere pleasure of taking sexual advantage of the women around him. Sounds sick, doesn't it? Well, get over it and you will find yourself in one of the funniest and most inventive books you've read for a long time. For the nice thing about our hero--and this is what subverts our own values as well as his--is that he is really a rather sensitive and even tender young man. For instance, he has no intention of embarrassing the women whose lives he explores and whose bodies he undresses. He would certainly never undress a woman he did not think he could put back together so precisely that even she will not notice. And anyway, what is most delighful is not this sexual naughtiness but the guiltless pleasure the hero takes in all the sensual data of life: the way chalk rubs against the blackboard, the way a voice sounds on a dictaphone machine, the noise a ball bearing makes when shaken in a can of paint. Baker knows all this can lead to something dangerous and corrupt, but his hero is not only playful, kind (he gives away a brand-new dildo to a woman he will never see and will never know him); in his own way he is also very moral. This last point is tricky. We see that our hero refuses to take money in the periods he freezes time and he is delicately prudish ("`Panties' is a word to be avoided, I feel"). So what do we have here? Let every reader decide for themselves. All we will say here is that Baker can be very funny and that, perverse or not, he certainly knows how to write. Stuart Whitwell
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First, I should begin by saying that my girlfriend gave me this book to read (ordered me to read it, in fact). "The answers to any questions you still have about what makes women 'tick' are right inside," she said, before remarking that she didn't know how a man could have written this on his own.
Now, Nicholson Baker is not only a writer, but an artist as well ("Vox," an earlier novel was also fabulous). His stellar command of the English language, so impressive in fact that I hope some of the words he cleverly 'created' for use in "Fermata" are accepted into modern speech and literature, allows Baker to write an entire novel about a subject that might otherwise get dull in a short Penthouse Forum "article." Having just finished "Fermata," I am still unsure as to how Baker managed to write it. Just when I felt that each phase of the book must surely be coming to a close, Baker managed to take it one, two, even three steps further. And in doing so, he proved that even the most taboo subjects can in fact be funny, exciting, erotic and just plain dirty all at the same time.
For those who accuse Fermata as being little more than stylized pornography, I would reply that you just didn't get it. While I must admit my astonishment that a mainstream publisher actually printed this daring book, I am very thankful they did. The censorship of even one word from this incredible novel would truly, truly have been a shame. Nicholson Baker successfully added a literary energy to even the most graphic chapters (i.e. part two of Marian the Librarian), making this a novel a MUST READ for anyone who thinks they have "read it all!"
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Ever wonder what a porn novel written by Andy Rooney would look like? Me neither. But with "The Fermata" Nicholson Baker has provided us with an answer to that question anyway. Like Rooney, Baker's narrator is endlessly digressive and fascinated by by the minutiae of nearly everything he encounters: the workings of a cassette tape, the difference between the way a woman sounds when she pees and the way a man sounds when he pees, the workings of a centrifuge. Like Rooney, Baker is a good writer, and so he manages to make these musings entertaining most of the time and sometimes even profound-sounding. But long before you reach page 100 you'll begin to appreciate the wisdom of "Sixty Minutes" producer Don Hewitt's decision to allot only two or three minutes a week to Rooney's ramblings. At book-length, such digressive and destinationless diatribes -- even when the subject is sex -- tend to become deadeningly dull. One could argue that this is just another example of Baker's genius: He has written a book about the stoppage of time so slow that the reader often feels as though time for him really HAS stopped. A literary example of form following function. But don't let this observation keep you from reading the book. Taken in small doses, "The Fermata" can be hugely enjoyable. In fact, Baker is a better writer than Rooney, so you should be able to spend much more time with him than just a couple of minutes per week. But when you're done reading "The Fermata", you may end up asking yourself, a la, Rooney: "Dija ever wonder why Nicholson Baker, a writer who seems to be fascinated by just about everything, has never managed to interest himself in the plotting of a novel?"
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Nicholson Baker is a master at taking what seems unusal, bizarre, or even ordinary (as in "The Everlasting Story of Nory") and make it interesting, fascinating and exciting. What Arno does during his "Fold" time is at once creative, enticing, and sweet. And Arno has an amazingly convincing way of justifying what seems immoral, to the point where I can actually wish to be one of the women he undresses and plays around with during one of his "Drops." Not for the inhibited, but this book is a must read for anyone who has ever asked him or herself "if I could freeze time and do whatever I wanted..."
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A tour-de-force of writing, but tiresome
The main character, Arno, has a marvelous ability to stop time for everyone but himself. This ability enables him to get away with a lot, but he chooses to use it mainly to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
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The best feature of Baker's writing is his rapier wit (not to mention his exquisite language). I died laughing during parts of this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von M. H. Bayliss
Very Entertaining
Any male conscious of his daydreams realizes that he has many fleeting erotic desires, harmless save for stigmaticism and inpracticality of fulfillment. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Absolutely Fastinating
If you're a fan of Hard Science Fiction, GET THIS BOOK. It'll blow you away. Bakers descriptions about stopped-time are breathtaking. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. August 1999 von Dina Capizzi
sublime
I read this book and became a woman who would give her eye-teeth for a lover like Arno Strine. He is warm, witty, in love with women and even though I feel a little guilty every... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. August 1999 von rrosario@erols.com
Unabashedly honest about everyones imagination
I have read and reread this. It is so much fun for the amazing imagination Baker has, which you can relate to, even if it makes you uncomfortable!
Am 27. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Slow starting but worth it!
The Fermata had such an interesting premise, I bought the book solely based on that. It starts off a tad slow but when Arno starts writing his escapades of Marian the libarian,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
what's wrong with a little porn?
i thoroughly enjoyed this book. i bought five copies and handed them out as christmas gifts to my nearest and dearest. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Nicholson Baker: The Kokomo Loco
Like his previous books The Mezzanine, Room Temperature, and Vox; Mr Baker's bejewelled fingers glide effortlessly across his keyboard to produce yet another highly comical,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Read "The Mezzanine" instead.
I came to love Baker's writing when I read "The Mezzanine." The writing is still good here, and the concept is interesting, but the book gets more and more relentlessly... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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