Insect Dreams The Half Life Of Gregor Samsa (Paperback)
| Author: Marc Estrin |
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| Every volume of "Vagabond"--a fictionalized graphic arts biography of real-life "sword saint" Miyamoto Musashi--has been a top-ten bestseller in Japan. Illustrations throughout. |
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Gregor Samsa, from Kafka's unforgettable METAMORPHOSES, is the hero of this debut novel, in which Gregor the cockroach, after a spell in a circus in Vienna, ends up in New York City as an insectoid superhero and inspires a dance, "the Gregor," that's as popular as the Charleston.
Gregor Samsa, from Kafka's unforgettable METAMORPHOSES, is the hero of this debut novel, in which Gregor the cockroach, after a spell in a circus in Vienna, ends up in New York City as an insectoid superhero and inspires a dance, "the Gregor," that's as popular as the Charleston.
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"...Estrin is influenced less by Kafka than by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author who stretched a thin fictional skin over the history of philosophy and emerged with the bestselling SOPHIE'S WORLD....Like Gaarder, Estrin is more interested in ideas than character, and, like SOPHIE'S WORLD, INSECT DREAMS is full of expository, and sometimes elementary, passages that have little to do with the action at hand. This is a shame, since Estrin...is undoubtedly talented with the pen. He has a knack for description, and his characterizations of historical protagonists are quick, sure-footed, even poetic....[I]t's a strange, frustrating, and only occasionally fulfilling debut." - Alex Abramovich 02/03/2002 Times Literary Supplement
"...Estrin's novel, remarkably his first, is beautifully organized and written with integrity and ambition, which is surely enough to recommend it." - Lesley Chamberlain 03/15/2002
"...Estrin is influenced less by Kafka than by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author who stretched a thin fictional skin over the history of philosophy and emerged with the bestselling SOPHIE'S WORLD....Like Gaarder, Estrin is more interested in ideas than character, and, like SOPHIE'S WORLD, INSECT DREAMS is full of expository, and sometimes elementary, passages that have little to do with the action at hand. This is a shame, since Estrin...is undoubtedly talented with the pen. He has a knack for description, and his characterizations of historical protagonists are quick, sure-footed, even poetic....[I]t's a strange, frustrating, and only occasionally fulfilling debut." - Alex Abramovich 02/03/2002 Times Literary Supplement
"...Estrin's novel, remarkably his first, is beautifully organized and written with integrity and ambition, which is surely enough to recommend it." - Lesley Chamberlain 03/15/2002
