Bøger af David Leo Rice

Europe, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its scattered pieces seeking reunion on the far side of history. The European continent trembles on the edge of total war, either in reality or deep in its own feverish imagination. Part present-tense apocalyptic satire and part neo-medieval phantasmagoria, David Leo Rice's new novel presents an alternate history of the present where the Internet has become a territory unto itself and unstable factions obsessed with nationalism, liberalism, and romanticism drive one another toward a clash that could turn the very notions of refuge and culture into the ravings of a lunatic.With The Berlin Wall, David Leo Rice has produced a text that feels totally sui generis: he has achieved the rarest of writerly feats and become his own genre. No other writer I know embodies simultaneity so cleanly or marries the aesthetics of gnosticism, decadence and pop-culture with a clarity of prose. If The New House was a bildungsroman from alternative dimensions, The Berlin Wall is an allegorical history of the present. It is as if Rice presents an archaeology of time, dusting off human chronology to reveal the multiplicative source of life in all its writhing self-contained logic beneath. He charts how forms form and the way the gross larval simplicity of fascism invades and reproduces in bodies.- Thomas Kendall, author of The Autodidacts and How I Killed the Universal Man

Like the rest of us, Gribby is willing to accept life in the surveillance state if, at the very least, it means there is the constant comfort and consolation of porn. He just didn't realize that clicking "yes" on the 12.99 a month plan would result in some hyper-real images of himself engaging in all manner of sexual scenarios--violent or otherwise--with his co-workers (for most people, that's not exactly an eroticizing thought--enticing one even less to come into the office). At first, Gribby's response is very positive indeed (which the folks at PornME have the dopamine levels to prove), but as the situations start to become increasingly lurid--in addition to being a Groundhog Day string of experiences that are indecipherable from the next--he wonders if this distraction is really worth the dull pain. Especially when it gets intergalactic.