Ваша оценкаThe protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means ‘nothing’ in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for ‘nothing’. He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars, but a shoebox containing nothing. Onc...
Издательство:
ISBN:
9781922790323
Год издания:
2022
Язык:
Английский
272 pages, Paperback
Возрастные ограничения:
18+
Критика
MOLLY YOUNG, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Everett returns to certain themes: academia, language games, boxes containing secrets, Blackness and nonsense. Dr. No hits all of them ... One way to evaluate an artist is to observe the quantity and quality of misinterpretation his work begets. By this measure Everett ranks very highly. 'Damn it, I don't understand it, but I love it,' mutters one of the characters, regarding Sill's weapon of nothingness. Same."
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