Provocative satire, that is definitely not "pro-Hitler", but also raises quite a few interesting points when our modern societies are concerned. Mainly, the power of the media; the way one can use it to ends that aren't the ones the audience thinks; and how it can be easy enough for a person with he...
This book has the interesting premise that Hitler, somehow finding himself alive in present-day (2011) Germany, tries to regain popularity and power with the use of modern media. However, I'm not entirely sure what the author is trying to convey.If it is trying to portray how a person from the 1940s...
Just kidding. [spoiler] But he does wake up in an empty lot..in 2011 Berlin [/spoiler]. But Timur Vermes Look Who's Back reads like the world's longest, most hilarious scenario joke you've ever run across. Except that Timur Vermes isn't joking...[spoiler] and neither is his Hitler[/spoiler]. Time ...
bookshelves: radio-4, play-dramatisation, germany, alternative-history, satire, published-2012, translation, amusing, berlin, autumn-2015 Read from October 20, 2013 to October 05, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06f54rqDescription: The next stop on Radio 4's literary journey across Europe ...
I have read this book with mixed feelings.It is bizarre, maybe. But there were moments that this book made me laugh loud.The book managed to shine a light on the more ridiculous aspects of modern life and in particular the media and the deification of celebrity.Despite the strange subject matter, Ti...
Some spoilers below.The premise of this book reads similar to another book, Taft 2012. In that story, Taft lies down on the White House lawn for a nap and wakes 100 years later, then runs for President again. I doubt many people remember Taft as history's greatest monster, though.It starts the same ...
Odwołując się do pewnego powiedzenia: Czasem tak jest, że życie boli, dokonam zgrabnej parafrazy: Czasem tak jest, że książka musi dojrzeć na półce nim po nią sięgniemy, mimo że wcześniej aż się do niej paliliśmy. Okej, przyznaję, nie jest to do końca parafraza, to prawie w ogóle nie jest parafraza,...
"Er ist wieder da" (Look who is back) by Timur Vermes is a very controversal book. The story is about Adolf Hitler, who wakes up in Berlin in 2011. Even though things have changed a lot and he is a little overwhelmed and helpless with all these new technologies, he realizes fast that he has to regai...
Es ist Sommer im Jahre 2011. Auf einem leeren Baugrundstück liegt ein Mann und schlägt die Augen auf. Adolf Hitler ist zurück und findet sich orientierungslos mitten in Berlin wieder. Doch er passt sich erstaunlich schnell seiner neuen Situation an. Und mit seinem Geschick, Reden zu schwingen und Le...
Et si Hitler se réveillait soudainement à notre époque ? Que se passerait il ? Derrière cette idée étrange se cache une critique féroce de notre époque et de ses rouages, un tableau acidulé de notre rapport avec les médias, un miroir qui nous renvoie, à force d'humour, à nos propres démons et à ces ...
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