The Man in the High Castle

An Electrifying Novel of Our World as It Might Have Been

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Publicado el 8 de octubre de 1962 por G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Número OCLC:
504595

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It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award–winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

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I'm Not Sure

I didn't dislike it, but I also don't feel like I connected with it? I liked the initial structure of it feeling like multiple vignettes that had all connected somewhat to the same book. And while I understand what was happening, I felt like it wasn't quite hitting the right notes for certain characters or even the overall theme. In a lot of ways, it felt like it kept fumbling some of them. (Edit: Upon reflection, it isn't actually true that the stories were woven around the same book because three of the characters never actually engage with the book in any capacity and their stories don't even mention it from the background.)

It was fine. Not my favourite book, but it was okay.

Faszinierende alternative Realität mit eher schwacher Handlung

Was wäre wenn Deutschland und Japan den zweiten Weltkrieg gewonnen hätten und danach die USA und die Welt unter sich aufgeteilt hätten? Dieses Gedankenspiel ist Grundlage des Buchs. Die Handlung spielt im Westen der USA und in der Bufferzone zwischen Japan und Deutschland, daher spielt sich auch der Großteil des Buches hier ab. Die konkreten weltpolitischen Folgen des Sieges der Nazis werden meist nur in kurzen Nebensätzen skizziert. Doch diese haben es in sich und lassen einen schaudern. Etwa was Deutschland nach Ende des Krieges mit dem gesamten afrikanischen Kontinent anstellt. Sehr interessant fand ich auch wie Nazi-Deutschland "innenpolitisch" dargestellt wird, wo sich wie in einem autoritären System üblich, die verschiedenen Institutionen selbst zu bekämpfen scheinen. Die konkrete Handlung des Buches mit den amerikanischen und japanischen Helden des Buchs fand ich eher schwach. Zu oft verliert sich die Erzählung im klein-klein und in Handlungssträngen die nicht ganz nachvollziehbar sind.

reseñó The Man in the High Castle de Philip K. Dick (A Berkley medallion book -- D3080.)

Da leggere *prima* di vedere la serie

Leggere questo romanzo dopo aver visto la serie non è stata una grande giocata. Mentre il libro è molto sottile e approfondisce solo alcuni aspetti, la serie ha aggiunto tantissimi elementi in più, soprattutto nell'ambito dell'azione. Detto questo: consiglio tantissimo entrambe.

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Lots of effort is made to set up a very believable world in which the Axis powers defeated the Allies and split America into three. We follow the main characters through events that lead them to various conclusions. As tension heightens the narrative centres on a book, a work of fiction in which the Axis powers were defeated by the Allies and Britain and America divide the world between them, and how difficult it would be to live in that world. There are various twists along the way as the story of each character reaches a conclusion. The final twist though is left until the last few pages, and then we are left hanging.
No explanation of how it could be. Was it a figment of the characters imagination, a dream, or was it really true, and if so how could it be that the world was as the book …

Temas

  • fascism

Lugares

  • San Francisco
  • California
  • Berlin