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Nomadi freelance ossessionati dalla tecnologia, Nathan e Naomi sono una coppia di fotogiornalisti alla costante ricerca di argomenti scabrosi che maneggiano con la disinvoltura dell'informazione nell'era dei social. Naomi, specializzata in cronaca nera, si appassiona alla vicenda di due affascinanti intellettuali francesi, Célestine e Aristide Arosteguy. Célestine è stata trovata morta e orrendamente mutilata nel suo appartamento parigino: la polizia sospetta che sia stato proprio il marito, al momento irreperibile, a ucciderla. E a divorare parti del suo corpo. Nel frattempo Nathan, che scrive di argomenti medici, si trova a Budapest per realizzare un pezzo su un controverso chirurgo. Quando scopre di aver contratto una rara malattia venerea, Nathan decide di volare a Toronto per incontrare il suo scopritore, il vecchio dottor Roiphe. Naomi, intanto, si mette alla ricerca di Aristide. Quale oscuro intreccio lega le due storie? Quale destino attende i due spregiudicati giornalisti? "Divorati" è il primo romanzo di David Cronenberg, incalzante e provocatorio, efferato e ironico, un'ossessione di corpi e oggetti, sessualità estreme, cospirazioni internazionali.
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- Pagine: 343
- Data di uscita: 01-10-2014
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”Speaking the words seemed to release them into a void in which they could evaporate unexpectedly; writing them seemed to encase them safely within our skulls, where they could leisurely ripen.” Aristide and Celestine Arosteguy are celebrated French philosophers as famous for their sexual escapades a Leggi tutto
4.5 stars I had put off reading this one because it doesn’t generally have good ratings and as a huge Cronenberg fan I was nervous that I would be disappointed. I shouldn’t have taken any notice of the ratings because this is one of my favourite books I’ve read this year. I really hope he writes more Leggi tutto
David Cronenberg is a film director who needs no introduction, and Consumed is his first novel. It's a difficult book to write about - Consumed is an esoteric, cinematic thriller, full of references to and observations about many different topics, its setting switching constantly between the countri Leggi tutto
“Could he really say anything about classical concepts of art, and therefore beauty, being based on harmony, as opposed to modern theories, post-industrial-revolution, post-psychoanalysis, based on sickness and dysfunction?” The master of body horror, David Cronenberg, has written an esoteric debut n Leggi tutto
I remember reading about Calvin Klein’s daughter. Every time she pulled down a lover’s pants, she was confronted by her father’s name on the band of his underwear. A total sex killer. I should've known better. It was about this time last year that I stumbled into Night Film . There is something about Leggi tutto
I have no idea why I read this entire thing. Maybe I just hate myself. Maybe because I somehow doubted it could end as badly as it began, and it wound up being worse. The writing style is dispassionately in-your-face, a sort of emphatic blandness. I get that the style is meant to be a clinical portr Leggi tutto
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