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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Being There - Jerzy Kosiński</h1> |
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2018-05-31 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/jerzy-kosinski/">#jerzy kosinski</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677877.Being_There">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the |
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most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It |
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is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man |
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who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street |
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tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without |
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qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are |
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heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what |
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he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves |
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impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of |
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American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.</p> |
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<p>It's a somewhat funny story. It's also short. But I can't stop thinking "What |
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the heck I just read?"</p> |
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<p>I've seen a lot about the movie (with the same name) but I've never seen the |
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movie itself. So I read the book.</p> |
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<p>But the story... I don't know if Kosinski just wanted to write something funny |
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or was trying to make a statement about the higher classes. 'Cause Chance is |
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dumb as a brick, but after being hit by a car of a high society socialite, |
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suddenly he's elevated to the point of being the smartest, most desired person |
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around.</p> |
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<p>So you see the kind of comic situations you could do with this. But also, |
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because everything sees him as a super smart persona, you can't stop thinking |
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that, maybe, Kosinski wanted to point how being rich isn't synonymous of |
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"being intelligent".</p> |
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<p>And, because you never know where the author is pointing at the the story ends |
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rather abruptly, I can't really say it's a good story.</p> |
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