Blake Butler - Scorch Atlas
The book was published by a small U.S. publisher, was perceived in the mainstream media is correspondingly less. Along with this is the uncertainty as to how the text - for example, inadequate editing more, and what a great asset, is the unusual design of the text. Dark, with acting destroyed paper, specially dyed previous background in the actual chapters short texts.
Despite the more or less short episodes, with pictures from an apocalyptic story is evident in the book a basic action. The world is changing. The sun is changing, the sky changes its colors. Associated is a major drought and the water disappears from the earth. People get sick, "disappear", it starts to rain things. This in turn succeeded by rain, which flooded and everything takes on the dimensions of the biblical flood.
general: the reference to Christianity is already clear, not devastate that only "modern" "biblical" plague the country, including communication seems to fail also in the sense of the Babylonian language loss. By a transformation of language into incomprehensible, given the inability to name things and people, the ability to recognize the name drop, only to die several possible the recognition and memory. God appears absent. Despite various Movie faith through prayer, the Bible, etc., it is missing - in the text made visible by non-recognizable and simple spaces, gaps in the text, expressing the absence of the divine. That garbled characters appear and be represented, the represented world can seem completely schizophrenic and leaves, besides other things, this interpretation of the novel as contemporary world through the eyes of a schizophrenic too.
is linguistically the work already pretty well developed, adapted to the apocalyptic scenario, well, very physical style table and interesting. It stresses quite well, the, in my opinion as to understanding, the core activities: communication or non-communication society as a fundamental critique of a world where communication is lost every day. The repeatedly occurring relation to modern media and the failure of these, the emptying of the day from the usual employment, the reduction of the activities, a certain amount of brutality by the loss of the valve "media" and others would be fascinating aspects of communication. In a world that has passed its own climax, which is why much too close, can only prevail decay. The fear shapes - and as a target of fear, you can personalize a hostile environment, would be able to call them "evil" fix. The anxiety can even mean that it is hostile and devouring humans. Wortwörtlich umgesetzt in einem Kapitel, das gewissermaßen im Verfallsstadium eines Märchens ist.
She had no idea she'd come full circle to her backyard when she found the bear standing at a tree. It was huge, the way her mother had said, the size of several men. It was reaching after leaves. It sat up when it heard her. It looked into her eyes. Hello, bear, she said, rasping. It's nice to finally meet you. The bear stood up and moved toward her, its long black claws big as her head. The collar of her dress had pulled so tight she found it hard to speak: What do you dream, bear? I will listen. She didn't flinch as the bear came near and put its paw upon her head. It battered at her and she giggled. It pulled her to its chest. She didn't feel her head pop open. She didn't feel her heart squeeze wide. The bear dissembled her in pieces. The bear ate the entire girl. It ate her hair, her nails, her shoes and bonnet. It ate the gown and ate her eyes. Inside the bear the daughter could still see clearly. The bear's teeth were mottled yellow. Inside its stomach, abalone pink. The color of the daughter became something soft - the something off, then something fuzzy, then something like the gown, immensely hued; then she became a strange fluorescence and she exited the bear - [...] (75)
(29 [ertrunken]; 35 [Feuer]; 56 [Die Art Schloss, die die meisten Menschen haben]; 61 [cat meat casserole]; 74 [Geburt des Kleids]; 75! [The bear dissemble the girl], 87 [the sun drank the ocean] 99 [bird in the fireplace], 108 [apocalyptic; reference to God], 109 [face earths; sky color], 122 [Atlas in the sky])
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