Strange Bodies: A Novel, by Marcel Theroux

Strange Bodies: A Novel, by Marcel Theroux

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Strange Bodies: A Novel, by Marcel Theroux

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AN AMBITIOUS AND WHOLLY ORIGINAL NOVEL OF DECEPTION AND PSYCHOSIS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FAR NORTHWhatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.

Strange Bodies: A Novel, by Marcel Theroux

• Amazon Sales Rank: #874409 in Books
• Brand: Theroux, Marcel
• Published on: 2015-06-02
• Released on: 2015-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.18" h x .84" w x 5.51" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Strange Bodies: A Novel, by Marcel Theroux

Review

“A page-turning, thought-provoking, exhilarating novel … ‘Thriller' may be a somewhat misleading label to fasten on a modern fable that also has elements of science fiction, dystopia, and domestic comedy. But without a doubt, Strange Bodies is a thrill to read.” ―The Wall Street Journal

“[Theroux] is a superb writer . . . There are beautiful things, real things, tucked in this novel.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“[Strange Bodies is] a literary science fiction novel as entertaining as it is thought-provoking and disturbing . . . Theroux masterfully braids horror and ontology, Nabokovian doppelgangers and Orwellian satire into a tragicomic narrative that pulls tight as a noose . . . A brilliant, troubling thriller.” ―Los Angeles Times

“This is a superb technological fantasy, a tense thriller and a brilliantly imagined debate about the relationship between body and soul. Wonderful.” ―Kate Saunders, The Times (London)

“An eerily plausible modern Frankenstein . . . It's not often you read a book as clever as this that is also emotionally charged and moving.” ―Doug Johnstone, The Independent

“Strange Bodies is an examination of contemporary consciousness. But from its robust hook, through its comic set-up, to its dark if hopeful conclusions, it is also a kindly, intelligently entertaining thriller.” ―M. John Harrison, The Times Literary Supplement

“The perfect literary thriller for the internet age.” ―Red Online

“The unfolding of the narrative is genuinely eerie, but the richness of allusion and elegance of design make Strange Bodies as much an inquiry into language and identity as a high-concept literary thriller . . . Its exploration of human vulnerability, the notion that consciousness may be no more than ‘a trick of the light,' is moving as well as thought-provoking, as elegiac as it is gripping.” ―Justine Jordan, The Guardian

About the Author

MARCEL THEROUX is the author of several novels, including Far North, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. He lives in London, where he also works as a documentary filmmaker and television presenter.

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful. Do words make us who we are? By Antonio I read this novel because it appeared in the summer reading lists published by a London newspaper and the plot summary was intriguing. This is a very clever novel about a man who doesn't know who he is, but finds it out as the book progresses, moving from rarefied academia to biotechnology, passing through pre-Soviet Russian utopianism and into real horror, the Common Task and the Malevin Procedure by which radical freedom may be achieved. Add in Dr Samuel Johnson, one of the strongest personalities to survive in writing (here, there is no metaphor), Lenin and his corpse, Stalin and his desire to lead the Revolution for ever. In Elizabeth Kostova's book "The Historian" she imagines Stalin as a vampire, never dying, spreading his evil into all eternity. In Strange Bodies, Theroux refers to such a situation, from a science-fictional perspective. All this, and the nature of self, the soul and fulfillment. The ethical quandaries of allowing powerful individuals to appropriate life-changing technology to enhance themselves into permanent superiority. All in all, this is a good book, well-written, smart, amusing and thought-provoking. I recommend it.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful. 'What makes me, me? What makes you, you?' By FictionFan When Nicholas Slopen turns up at the shop of an old friend, she is stunned. He looks completely different, his voice is different but, most surprisingly of all, she'd heard he'd died the year before. And yet once they start talking, she is soon convinced that it is indeed he.This intelligent and very well written book poses the question - what makes us, us? Can we be defined, summed up, by the words we speak? What if we are sundered irrevocably from all our relationships - personal, professional, social: are we still us?Our narrator, known as Q by his psychiatrist but calling himself Dr Nicholas Slopen, relates his story from the secure facility of the Royal Bethlehem Hospital (a descendant of Bedlam) to where he has been sectioned. Since Dr Slopen died the year before, and the authorities have his body and autopsy photographs to prove it, and since Q looks nothing like him, he is considered to be suffering from a delusion. But he has all Dr Slopen's memories and an explanation of how he has become who - or what - he is. An explanation so fantastical that he understands why no-one will believe him...Dr Slopen's story begins when he is asked to use his expertise to authenticate some letters apparently written by Samuel Johnson. He is entirely convinced by the handwriting and content that these letters can only be genuine, but they are written on paper that wouldn't have been available to Johnson. From this beginning, the author takes us on an investigation into identity, individuality and authenticity that is entertaining and unsettling in equal measure. Theroux weaves notions of psychiatry, philosophy, science and politics into a story where the human motivations become scarily believable even while the central point remains deliberately incredible. A story of mad science turned to evil purpose, the age-old search for immortality, man's inhumanity to man, but at its heart this is a search for a definition of humanity.Amidst all the fascinating theorising and philosophising, Theroux doesn't forget to give us some well-rounded characterisation and a great story. At first, Slopen is an unattractive character, smug and superior, an academic disappointed at the world's failure to reward him as he feels he merits. But as his nightmarish journey progresses, we see him develop compassion, a conscience, perhaps, and even courage. Jack, the mysterious savant, demands our sympathy and Vera, who cares for him, remains always enigmatic and somewhat unfathomable. An exceptional book in what is turning out to be a vintage year for exceptional books, this is both enjoyable and thought-provoking and will leave this reader at least mulling over some of the many questions it raises. Highly recommended.NB This book was provided for review by the publisher.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A great sci-fi work with some tiny flaws By Tor SR. Thidesen STRANGE BODIES, written by Marcel Theroux (yes, Louis' brother) is a wonderfully imaginative, intensely innovative and riveting read - on most pages.Taking perhaps a pivotal tenement of contemporary sci-fi - the weaving the heights of scientific discovery with universal questions related to identity and self - caring less about fantastical tales of space-flight or discoveries of new world, and instead looking at where subjectivity would stand faced with the existence of immortality, consciousness-transplantation and cloning.What would you do if your consciousness could be transplanted into another body?Nickolas Slopen - married, father of two - is asked to verify the authenticity of some letters purported to be authored by Samuel Johnson. To Dr. Slopens astonishment, the content of the letters seem undoubtably real, while the paper and technical aspects reveal the letters to have been written in recent time.He discovered that the letters are written by "Jack", an idiot savant who lives in a dark cellar and who can do nothing else but reproduce Dr Johnson's letters.As is the features of this particular type of story, this innocent and likable character is quickly thrown into a dark underworld while his entire world starts to fall apart.At times this book is a near perfect sci-fi-thriller. At times the book hurdles forward with great joy and enthusiasm.At other times the book seems to go on autopilot and I lost interest. The main characters new discoveries, leading him to new places and new clues, are at times uninspired and you feel the story is just "going through the motions".It's as if the book doesn't quite make it. I wanted to like this book. I wanted to love this book.I still recommend this book to people. It's a good book. It just falls under that awful criticism: Could be better.Perhaps it should have gone through one more draft?But I'll me reading Marcel's other books. Just to make sure. There are moment of genius in his prose. There is just enough to make this a worth while read.

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