Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas
Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles
Page: 193
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ISBN: 9780374709860
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to found a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a sympathetic outsider—mocked, misunderstood, physically assaulted—and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage the horrors of the mid-twentieth century. Playing with the tropes of classic adventure tales like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe, Kracht's novel, an international bestseller, is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant—sometimes all on the same page. His allusions are misleading, his historical time lines are twisted, his narrator is unreliable—and the result is a novel that is also a mirror cabinet and a maze pitted with trapdoors. Both a provocative satire and a serious meditation on the fragility and audacity of human activity, Imperium is impossible to categorize, and utterly unlike anything you've read before.
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas, by Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness.
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Paperback)
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Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas
In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas
Kracht's fascinating tale is an impressionistic portrait of a thumb-sucking, mad-for-coconuts German nudist. Set during the early 20th century and based on
Imperium by Christian Kracht
This knockabout historical tale of cocomania and German colonialism in the South Seas relies on an extravagant and ironic prose style, whose enjoyable
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A fascinating story about utopianism and food obsession in the early 1900s. Imperium should be on display at every Whole Foods checkout and made required
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Paperback)
Nov 8, 2016 —
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Paperback)
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