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Imperium : A Fiction of the South Seas

by Christian Kracht
Imperium : A Fiction of the South Seas - Thryft
Imperium : A Fiction of the South Seas - Thryft

Surreal island adventure explodes with foolish allure.

Recommendation: - Imperium is a surreal and captivating island adventure that delves into the extremes of human nature. It takes you on a wild journey to the Bismarck Archipelago, where August Engelhardt tries to establish a colony based on sun worship and coconuts. With a mix of humor, shock, and poignancy, Christian Kracht's novel challenges the notion of extremism and the pursuit of unconventional ideals. Enter this world of bizarre and outlandish details, and be prepared for a storytelling experience that will leave you questioning the allure of extremism.

  • Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis (2012)
  • Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Daniel Bowles (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Imperium : A Fiction of the South Seas

by Christian Kracht
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ISBN: 9781250097477
Authors: Christian Kracht
Publisher: Picador Paper
Date of Publication: 2016-11-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 3586 readers)

Description

One of "Publishers Weekly"'s Ten Best Books of 2015 An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. Christian Kracht's "Imperium" uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a pitiable, misunderstood outsider and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage the horrors of the mid-twentieth century. Playing with the tropes of classic adventure tales such as "Treasure Island" and "Robinson Crusoe," Kracht's novel, an international bestseller, is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant. His allusions are misleading, his historical time line is twisted, his narrator is unreliable--and the result is a novel that is a cabinet of mirrors, a maze pitted with trapdoors. Both a provocative satire and a serious meditation on the fragility and audacity of human activity, "Imperium" is impossible to categorize and utterly unlike anything you've read before.
 

Surreal island adventure explodes with foolish allure.

Recommendation: - Imperium is a surreal and captivating island adventure that delves into the extremes of human nature. It takes you on a wild journey to the Bismarck Archipelago, where August Engelhardt tries to establish a colony based on sun worship and coconuts. With a mix of humor, shock, and poignancy, Christian Kracht's novel challenges the notion of extremism and the pursuit of unconventional ideals. Enter this world of bizarre and outlandish details, and be prepared for a storytelling experience that will leave you questioning the allure of extremism.

  • Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis (2012)
  • Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Daniel Bowles (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.