dimecres, 29 d’octubre de 2014

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.” — Her pert, miniature face took on a familiar knowing expression, one that was sure to annoy Margo. For a woman who wore glasses, Vic thought, Junie Black could look astonishingly depraved. I wish Ms. Black had her own Flaubertian subplot. She's so Bovary. Black is endearing with her hussy ways; her very modern championing of espresso and "lasagne." Well, endearing when stuck between the pages of a book. And stuck in TIME. Kinda. No, it's not a spoiler if it's in the title. ("Wait, they're Lost?" -See?) This is sort of an urtext for the hypnotically craptacular movie The Thirteenth Floor....La parola non rappresenta la realtà. La parola è la realtà." Tempo fuor di sesto, dall'evidente citazione shakespeariana, è uno dei più classici romanzi dickiani, sebbene appartenente a un decennio considerato ancora "giovanile". Tra i tanti temi dickiani, uno dei più importanti è sicuramente il conflitto tra realtà e illusione, che lo scrittore rielabora in maniera sempre diversa e sempre più fantasiosa. A far da sfondo è, altro topos dickiano, una tranquilla cittadina di provincia sul finire degli anni Cinquanta. Niente, però, è come sembra. Lo sa bene il protagonista, Ragle Gumm: quando comincia a venire giù il castello di carte che è la realtà in cui vive, si ritrova dilaniato da uno straniamento esistenziale e uno più paranoico, che scivola lentamente sul complottismo. Ciò che accade a Ragle tocca molti altri protagonisti dickiani: qualche anno prima era toccato al protagonista di La città sostituita; se però in quel romanzo un Dick più acerbo sposta lo straniamento su un piano puramente fantastico, in Tempo fuor di sesto mette nero su bianco la paranoia della guerra fredda, i timori di uno stato di polizia, i delirii di uno scontro fratricida. Dick compie dunque un ulteriore passo verso la dissoluzione del tessuto della realtà, ma il velo di Maya è ancora intatto. I presupposti filosofici ci sono, ma ne mancano gli sviluppi; il conflitto realtà/visione inizia proprio nel regno della metafisica, con dibattiti squisitamente filosofici tra Ragle e la sua spalla, il cognato Vic, ma oltre non riesce ad andare: l'inganno viene svelato, la realtà viene ricomposta, Ragle riacquista i suoi ricordi e con essi la sua vera vita. “The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.

It’s 1959. Ragle Gum lives with his sister and her family. He’s having an affair with the woman next door. He’s the champion of the newspaper contest, “Where Will the Little Green Man be Next?” Oh yeah, and he’s going sane. 

It starts with what he thinks are hallucinations—a disappearing soft drink stand, leaving nothing in its place but a piece of paper labeled SOFT DRINK STAND. But then he hears pilots talking about him over the radio and he finds a phonebook from a place that doesn’t seem to exist. And now his brother-in-law starts to notice the signs as well. They decide to skip town, but the town doesn’t want them to leave. There’s always something in the way—a cop, a flat tire, a line at the bus depot that never ends. 

When they finally do get out, they learn that it’s not 1959. It’s 1998. And all they want in the whole world is for Ragle to keep plugging away at the “Where Will the Little Green Man be Next?”

3 comentaris:

  1. inged with Cold War paranoia - there’s a real touch of the early shorts of Kurt Vonnegut in their structure and use of language and domestic situation. Ragel Gumm earns a living playing the Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next contest in the national newspaper. He plays every day, deciphering the cryptic clue and honing his pattern finding skills to a fine art. He has won every day for the last two years. As you can imagine, he has become something of a celebrity. He starts to suspect that his perfect world where winning is all the keeps the world happy is under threat, he sees things no human should as the very fabric of space and time starts to tatter around the edges giving him glimpses of other past-lives, other universes, other times. Philip K Dick’s, Gumm finds artefacts from times no longer about places that never were. With the help of his brother-in-law, Victor Nielson, Ragel Gumm hatches a brilliant plot to find out the truth about his quaint little 1950s’ town but what he discovers is beyond his most twisted dreams - a place where sanity itself is stretched to snapping point.29 d’octubre de 2014 a les 14:28

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    1. corpo premiado? isso é com direito a gavetão no panteão nazional ou é pra espalhar no metro de nova iorqui como o carlos castro-te? Gosto · Responder · há cerca de um minuto Miguel Mendes D'es Maia o kamarada já reparou que melhor rádio é a rádio amália ? há milhões de velhinhos a ouvirem a gaja ...canal q? não será canal quê? canal caveira já passei...agora canal q melhor canal? de entretenimento? é como aqueles canais nos aquaparques?30 d’octubre de 2014 a les 18:44

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