Man in the Dark
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72-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts about the things he would prefer to forget - his wife s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter s boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world
… More »72-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts about the things he would prefer to forget - his wife s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter s boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. Brill is joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, and he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage and confronts the grim reality of Titus's death. Man in the Dark is a novel of our time, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night whilst also celebrating the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.
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Add a CommentAnother boring book. The only thing I liked in it, despite the horror of the content, three or four stories that are inserted into the book, about other people, most of all, about the cruel death of these people. What is the genre of this book? Is it against the war? This anti-war theme is absolutely weak in this book. The story of Brick is as a children's story. Typical senile loneliness, betrayals, unnecessary late confessions... A work of art should capture the reader. If, after or during of reading, you need to strain to understand possible allegories, symbolisms, abstracts, and so on, then there are other genres for that. Read, and then try to explain what it all meant - brings boredom. Moreover, in recent years, there are a lot books about the same thing.