DCC00-15 David Cronenberg - Consumed.nfo
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Title: Consumed: A Novel
Author: David Cronenberg
Read By: William Hurt
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Fiction - Contemporary - Mystery - Horror - Sci-Fi - Weird
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the
story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's
death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism
of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers
in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only
in airport hotels and browser windows.
has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has
disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of
Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper
Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work
Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's. Nathan then travels to
Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr.
Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose
bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret. These parallel narratives
become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics,
3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in
an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative
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Guest Review of Consumed by Bruce Wagner
Gore-igami
staircases. (A character making an off-stage appearance in Consumed
is Sagawa, the true-life necrophiliac and murderer who cannibalized
a woman in Paris and became a Tokyo celebrity after his extradition
and release. He went on to write restaurant reviews. All of which makes
Yet Consumed is a companion to those weltanschauungs, in that it rapturously
finger-paints the hallucinatory avalanche of information in our time
and how we enter the river of streaming data to emerge from those waters
explorations, insects buzz large in Consumed as well). This novel is
ultimately about the human scanner devouring image and text, thus becoming
transformed. Like the Ouroboros symbol of the snake consuming its tail,
the reader of fiction chases and eats what inexorably becomes its (our)
own Tale; the reader-cannibal of Consumed rips out the beating art of
the reflected warrior and becomes a hyperlink. One of the characters
what was the basic human condition, what a current human being really
was, because we had lost touch with that, our students made that clear
to us, and so we were also using the Internet to research our roles
sexy, and insanely funny, too. The charismatic celebrity-philosopher
a pair of young journalists/lovers who fatefully converge to unravel
and Labor Gore: Marx and Horror.) They sleep with their student-acolytes
desire, you are dead. Even desire for a product, a consumer item, is
better than no desire at all. You can see this in the youngest babies.
A hilarious sequence takes place at the Cannes Film Festival, where
the Arosteguys are on the jury for the main competition. (Cronenberg
himself was famously awarded the Special Jury prize for Crash in 1996,
who were not moviemaking professionals. The year before, it had been
an American opera singer and a computer-game designer. Sequestered in
a deluxe villa in the hills overlooking Cannes, we were to discuss in
the most leisurely and free-form manner all questions of cinema and
the most Arcadian gardens. . . . There was on our jury an aged, angry,
exiled North Korean director, Bak Myun Mok. He was not small, Bak Myun
Mok, but he was arrogant and therefore slow and unprepared for my attack.
Because we were not allowed to bring cameras and cell phones to our
retreat, there are no photographs or videos of the expression of my
summoned to the villa. . . . Suffice it to say that the voting procedure
The action spans from Hungary to Toronto to Paris to North Korea and
includes incestuous partners: Nathan, a journalist with aspirations
on a dodgy artist-surgeon, and his lover Naomi, an intrepid techie-gamine
in the middle of an Internet investigation of the apparent murder of
both engaged in exotically cryptic experimentation on each another in
Sheen AKA Shin Sang-ok, a (again, true-life) South Korean director who
along with his actress wife was kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il in 1978 in
disorders, communication from the insect kingdom through high-end hearing
essay-like musings on jealousy and possession, the blurring of bloodlines
and the smearing of blood in the totalitarian politics of family and
eros, the fetishization of both disease and cure, the origami of desire
fostered by language and mystery, the literal geography of escape that
of the Web devouring its tail as we consume the information that has
impossibly possible tapestry of au courant fears and reactions to the
all-consuming Now.
into an alternate reality forged by the agonies of empathic adaptation.
in themselves a metaphor for what is happening to each of us because
of prolonged exposure to the virus of technologically enhanced evolution
and our inability to keep up. We adapt, but the flavor of that adaptation
becomes an encroaching madness that Cronenberg has transcribed, vivisected
The rapture of the Deep Data.
might be a book in it, with the ever-present desire to dig for the chimerical
truth driving it on, providing the suspense, and no need ever to certify
Review
those of us who relish a trip into the shadowy depths, a must-read.
Cronenberg's novel is as troubling, sinister, and as enthralling as
shocking story about the nexus of the spirit and the flesh? Consumed
technology, and uncompromising carnality of Consumed should come as
no surprise. He will probably be accused of every sin that can be invented
to compensate for human fear of mind and body. This fiercely original
book, with the scope and poetic exactitude of Nabokov's best work, has
the power to unsettle, disarm, and finally make the reader absolutely
film oeuvres. With Consumed, he has become the definitive heir, not
examination of self-absorbed intellectuals shows that his skills as
a prose author are not to be discounted. . . . Readers will find it
is saturated with details of technology, sex, and disease . . . and
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