This one got weird, huh. I'm not quite sure I get it, or even that there's much to get, but it was a fun read

Kehlmanns Konzept, einen Roman in neun Einzelgeschichten zu porträtieren und jeweils Nebenfiguren der ersten Geschichte zu Hauptfiguren der Folgegeschichten zu machen, fand ich sehr großartig. Dadurch entsteht für mich allerdings kein stringentes Romankonzept, so ist's wohl auch gewollt.
Jedes Einzelteil greift Elemente der vorigen auf, so geht es beispielsweise oft um Tod, eine Reise, Ängste, schwierige Beziehungen und das Ausbrechen aus dem eigenen Leben, um jemand anderes zu werden.
Leider gefielen mir nur 3-4 der Geschichten wirklich. Manche sind sprachlich völlig über- oder untertrieben, da werden für einen Satz kaum mehr als 3 Wörter verwendet, was den Lesefluss extrem staccatohaft machte. Zudem existiert in gefühlt jeder Geschichte irgendeine wahllose, sinnlose Sexszene, die man einfach nicht lesen möchte. Animalisches Gehabe bei solcherlei Beschreibungen trifft leider nicht meinen Nerv.
Man kann es lesen, aber für mich war es keinerlei Offenbarung oder Novität. Sprachlich vor allem eher enttäuschend, Konzept des Ganzen aber spannend.

abandoned.

Vanskeli å rate. Artige idea, men ikke heilt sekker på om dæ e nå meir te dæ enn et par triks mæ perspektiv og fourth wall shenanigans. Va gøy å læs da. Kapittel 3 "Rosalie geht sterben" va nok favorittkapitlet mitt, men likte og "Beitrag zur Debatt"

All about identity, this little page turner is filled with overlapping narratives and literary devices. 'Think League of Gentleman' scripted by Italio Calvino...

A pretty solid book of slightly experiemental narratives in the meta vein. The cover tells me it's a novel in nine episodes, but I'm not sure I see that; the stories cross over, it's true, but I'm not sure they even really follow a particular theme, let alone develop it in a consistent or probing way.

The theme is maybe fame, as the title would suggest, or more openly identity-- who we are and how we know that, what it means. But as I suggested, it's not consistently developed beyond some observations, like identity now is maintained electronically and is therefore more virtual than ever.

Everything I've said sounds really negative, though, and that's not really how I felt about the book; after all, not every book needs to be a philosophical treatise. The stories here are lively and fun; Kehlmann's characters get out and have some interesting adventures, and he writes in a variety of styles and picks up on some of my favorite themes: what makes writers any good, and how does that make them bad at other things, for example, or maybe how fatuous most writing that purports to know anything really is. There's a lot here to like, with only a couple duds in the book. It's a quick read, it's not deep, but it's worth it.

3,5/5

A partir de um número de celular já em uso, atribuido a um novo usuário, inicia-se uma série de situações em que um ator alemão famoso começa a ver o seu mundo se transformar de uma hora para outra.

"Vozes" é apenas a primeira de um série de nove histórias que compõem esse romance/livro. De certa forma, encontram-se interligadas, sendo que o autor Daniel Kehlmann usa e abusa das metanarrativas para alcançar o seu intento. Algumas histórias funcionam muito bem, mas outras ficam a meio caminho. Em sua maioria, tratam dos reflexos da fama na vida das pessoas, nomeadamente dos autores de livros.

Ao usar as metanarrativas, Kehlmann parece-me também fazer uma crítica ácida à contemporaneidade (para não dizer, pós-modernidade), à dita sociedade do consumo e do espetáculo, na qual pessoas se tornam objetos de culto.

Os contos de que mais gostei foram "Rosalie viaja para morrer" e "Oriente". Se a primeira é habitada por uma personagem que tenta influenciar sua própria história, a segunda é labiríntica, quase kafkaniana.

Dentre as que mais gostei, a que

Fame- in english

Ich konnte ein paar gute Ideen sehen, zB dass eine der Geschichten in einer anderen Geschichte als Kurzgeschichte erscheint (meta), aber das Buch hat mich auch nervös gemacht, und das Kapitel über den Internetsüchtigen war wirklich sehr schlecht.