The book of daniel el doctorow
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We exist within the head of Daniel, but the head of Daniel is all over the place. They were executed by the state for treason in the early 1950s, and this very public and very “example-setting” case made the teenage years of their orphaned children very difficult indeed.
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Daniel and his sister’s birth parents are dead. Susan, Daniel’s sister, has just been consigned to a psychiatric hospital after being found with her wrists slit in the ’60s American equivalent of a Little Chef, while he and his painfully young wife and their child loiter in the foyer with the siblings’ foster parents. This fair-sized novel is a moving, thought-provoking and experimental work, all about the fallout of extreme political ideology, all about grief, all about regret, all about horror, all about pain.ĭaniel, who is predominantly the narrator, is a hippie in his late 20s in the late 1960s in America. Doctorow falls firmly within that category of fine Cold War fiction. Then again, maybe it’s easier to capture nuanced portraits of heightened emotions than it is to capture nuanced portraits of nuanced emotions. When extremism rises, emotional experience moves towards the extreme, and Art tends to rise and elevate itself alongisde this, and often manages to find deep within itself an ability to evoke the feelings and experiences of extreme living. Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn in Russia, Marilyn Monroe’s ex and all those fun spy novelists in the West. Whatever your view of the Cold War’s inherently similar worldviews, it is impossible to deny the period’s great capacity for political writing. By refusing to allow its citizens the ability to grow and sustain themselves as consumers within a capitalist society, it instead doomed them to starvation in a society that offered no reward to work and coddled its comrades to death. It’s America as it sees itself cock-slapping the rest of the world due to how America sees the rest of the world, whilst Russia does the same.īoth as bad as each other, at least in cause, though the common concensus is (at least here in Wee Bonny England) that the Russians were worse. I’m talking atheistic Communism versus Christianised capitalism. Obviously, I’m talking about Russia and the US. The world at that time was cast into blurry, grey-stained, black and white, every individual close to polarity, every nation state making alliances and allegiances based on what it thought was the best for its weightly-defined national ideology, with the two big players throwing their weight around like the ignorant twats who hit puberty before the end of primary school and mistakenly allowed physical power to give them a sense of innate superiority*. Please note that the characters, names or techniques listed in The Book of Daniel is a work of fiction and is meant for entertainment purposes only, except for biography and other cases.The Cold War is a period loved by fiction. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1972)įiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Literature, 20th Century, Contemporary, The United States Of America ,Īudible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook.