Consumed
By: David Cronenberg
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780007552245; 9780007299157
Subjects: Philosophers; Death; Journalists; Conspiracy; Regissörer; Fiction
Description: The story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.
Table of contents: title: In Paris, Hannah, a journalist, investigates the strange case of a famous French intellectual couple: the wife has been killed and apparently eaten, and the husband has disappeared. Meanwhile, Hannah's partner Nathan is reporting on a renegade Hungarian doctor's new cure for cancer. Consumed is exactly what fans of Cronenberg's films would expect from his first novel: hypnotic, darkly comic, with vividly drawn characters moving through a landscape that at first seems alien, only to become curiously familiar. It is dark yet mischievously humorous; recognisable yet disturbingly uncanny. There is an interest in; title: and fetishisation of; title: technology, and the way we interface with the world; there is an undercurrent of perverse sexuality. In it, the imaginative brilliance of J.G. Ballard is married with stylistic verve of William Gibson.