Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie over de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jesse Ball. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verschenen of aangekondigd.
Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie
- “A Kafkaesque descent into a legal system . . . The contrast between the first and second halves of Ball’s mesmerizing novel is stark and effective . . . A fast-paced tilt-a-whirl of a social commentary absurdist novel, with insights that will leave readers feeling complicit.” (Shelf Awareness)
- “The fictional realms Ball constructs are unnerving in their depictions of social and physical austerity, facades behind which emotions roil . . . Ball’s vision is chilling, his writing flawless in this stark, grueling tale.” (Booklist)
The Repeat Room
- Auteur: Jesse Ball (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Catapult
- Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jesse Ball
Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers.
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.
The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.
Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball’s absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.
Jesse Ball (7 June 1978, Port Jefferson, New York) is an absurdist whose prize-winning work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
