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Christoffer Boe, Allegro

By Steen | November 6, 2006

Christoffer Boe’s second film, Allegro also deals with love and the problems that sometimes follow. It is not a typical romance film - far from it - but instead attempts to tackle those well-known issues in a different, more abstract or symbolic style.

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Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

By Steen | November 11, 2005

Bret Easton Ellis’ new novel Lunar Park is an unusual departure from his typical style. While the themes remain much the same (alienation and anxiety in a commodified, fragmented, senseless world), this novel takes on a quite different resonance from his earlier works by bringing in a different main charater; Bret Easton Ellis ‘himself.’ Much [...]

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Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days

By Steen | October 9, 2005

Michael Cunningham’s fourth novel, Specimen Days follows in the vein of The Hours in having a very specific and concrete connection to another author’s work. In this case it is Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass in particular, though the title of Cunningham’s novel comes from another Whitman work of the same name. Cunningham’s [...]

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William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach

By Steen | August 2, 2005

This framenarrative tells the story of a woman, Hope, at three different points of her life. Science plays a big part of the story, which is the main reason for my interest in it. The two main narratives, the third is simply the frame which envelops them, alternative between first and third-person perspective, creating an [...]

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Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

By Steen | May 31, 2005

I’ve just finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and it’s a wonderful book. It has a very unusual premise for Ishiguro, who has so far mostly written family/ethnic dramas (such as The Remains of the Day) but here he does something unusual. He writes a novel with a science fiction premise. Of course, the [...]

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