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The story does not follow what one would conventionally call a "plot". A pianist comes to an unnamed Central/Eastern European town to save the locals from impending cultural disaster. From the very strange things happen: we're taken on ten-minute elevator rides, we're lectured, we face requests and pleas at every turn, we're led down passageways with illogical beginnings and ends, and confronted with characters who never quite reveal their hidden motives.
This is an experiment in writing. The reader feels as if he/she is reading the transcript of a fevered dream which never quite spins into a nightmare, and we're captivated by the experience. This is a study in constructed anxiety. We know we're on the path to some sort of impending doom but we can't get out of the way.
I read The Unconsoled years ago and I still vividly remember the details; the illogical leaps in time and inexplicable coincidences. This is a strange and complicated novel that left me exhausted. This is not a feel-good read. Its strange format notwithstanding it addresses some big issues. What is community? What is the individual's obligation to others? How are we united and what separates us? And in the end, what control do we have over our own lives, much less the lives of those who depend on us.
A courageous novel. A strange experiment that, in the end, works quite well.
Second, when I recommend this novel to friends, I don't point out that it follows the schema of a panic dream (e.g., you're late for the meeting and then you discover you're not wearing pants, and so on), because that's a major spoiler. It takes at least 30 pages to figure it out, and this is a large part of the fun. But I reiterate the point here, because it looks like it's not obvious to all reviewers. Again, if you don't get this, then the novel is not going to make a lot of sense, and I doubt it would be enjoyable. (And I don't find it surreal in the sense of Kafka; it's actually a very *realistic* depiction of what it feels like to be dreaming, though clearly a real dream could never go on so long and be self-consistent.)
Finally, I completely disagree with the comment that the chapters could be read in a different order. Maybe the novel is too long, but it's tightly woven. Every seemingly pointless digression in dialogue ties in with a later event. It's just a pleasure to be surprised again and again at how seemingly inconsequential comments are woven into the plot much later.
The entire narrative is presented as an uncomfortable dream, and the author gives us no solid ground... Lesen Sie weiter...
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