Alex Garland
Paperback | Pages: 273 pages Rating: 3.22 | 5792 Users | 265 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Tesseract |
| ISBN: | 1573221090 (ISBN13: 9781573221092) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Philippines |
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The Tesseract by Alex Garland is a novel that lets the reader wonder at his own insignificance. It is a theme that's already been implanted there, in the modern reader’s sophisticated brain, by Voltaire, and made new again by this generation’s collective and personal psyche, which is quite enormous/ambitious in scope. It’s no travesty to say that the society of 2011 is somewhat the intended dream of our future from way before the millennium--that is, we are living the 2011 version according to 1999, the very oracular year. There is an omnipresent ghost that hovers above it all, called Globalization, and this specter is felt everywhere: from the smallest villages of Thailand to the most industrialized cosmopolitan cities of the U.S. This current feeling had been hinted at way before it even got here. Alex Garland is a remarkable writer. He says that there is in life, in his novel, “something… you are not equipped to understand.” The Tesseract is "[that] thing unraveled, but not the thing itself.” (249) This conclusion is reached only after having read the three distinct vignettes which finally come together in the impressive fourth act. Cohesiveness is found once all stories are put together, like a jigsaw puzzle. The three stories are completely different from one another in tone and style, though the writer’s voice is identifiable & easy to read (but it strays from the comprehensible by oftentimes entering the realm of the poetic). This writer has very little to hide: he is definitely more about exposing secrets than hiding them (as opposed to countless other great modern British novels, including Ishiguru’s Never Let Me Go, Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty or anything Julian Barnes). The Tesseract is a terrific Masterpiece.Mention Regarding Books The Tesseract
| Title | : | The Tesseract |
| Author | : | Alex Garland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 273 pages |
| Published | : | January 25th 1999 by Riverhead Hardcover (first published August 11th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.22 From 5792 Users | 265 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books The Tesseract
As a fan of Alexs, I was expecting something mind blowing as per his movies/shows, and though I liked the concept, I found it to be somewhat of a slow burn that gets told through too many perspectives at once. I liked how it wrapped all the viewpoints together in the end, though I wish it maintained a more consistent level of action versus plot.
Tarantino meets science geek. Very cool book!
Despite the fact that almost nothing good happens to any of the characters in the book, I really enjoyed reading "The Tesseract." The intertwined narratives of the mafia, family, street kids, and psychologist aren't exactly subtle, but each one had something powerful. Sometimes all the elements lost a little of that power as Alex Garland pushed them together into one conclusion. However, overall I definitely liked this book and, as it was the first of Garland's that I've read, I'll have to seek
One of my all time favorite books.
After The Beach Garland goes experimental tailoring a novel where different stories and paths unravel themselves and collide. I like Alex Garland, also in his works as a screenwriter/director, I like his writing, very smooth and enjoyable, but sadly I couldn't connect with this particular novel.
One of those multiple convergent plot threads, deal. What unseen factors lead to life changing events? Pretty good, not as good as the Beach, I thought at the time, though it's been ages now, so who knows.
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