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K Frink su ex esposa Juliana y Nobusuke Tagomi saltando la narración constantemente de un personaje a otroLa trama gira alrededor de tres cuestiones ue se tocan por momentos el comercio en torno a las antigüedades americanas y la valoración ue los japoneses hacen de ella la misión del Sr Baynes llegado de Europa para entrevistarse con fines aparentemente comerciales con el Sr Shinjiro Yatabe y un extraño libro censurado por los nazis ue describe a los Aliados victoriosos escrito por un tal Hawthorne Abendsen el Hombre en el Castillo al ue alude el título. Philip K Dick was certainly a brilliant man and a gifted writer His imagined dystopia of a world split between the victorious Reich and Imperial Japan is chilling and realistic Ok perhaps colonisation of Mars in 1962 is a bit of a stretch but the depiction of San Francisco under the Japanese administration was excellent His characters were vivid and lifelike His villain was somewhat predicable but still a fascinating one The dystopia he describes particularly the horrors of unbridled fascism in Africa etc is terrifying I enjoyed the internal monologues and the dialogs very much Perhaps Haruki Murakami was somewhat inspired by Philip K Dick to leave the story with lots of uestions unanswered That being said there is a humanity to the characters and I became attached to several of them One thing I found a bit incoherent albeit a key to the plot was the obsession with I Ching I know lots of Japanese people and have been to Japan a dozen times and it seems to me highly improbable that the Japanese would turn so obsessively to Taoism and superstition because Shintoism and Buddhism are so ingrained in their culture which to my understanding is nearly the polar opposite of Tao That being said it allowed PDK to make his typical forays into the psyche of his characters I wondered also if the Man in the High Castle was not a self portrait Also the idea of a book of alternate reality The Grasshopper Lies Heavy inside this book of alternate reality was a nice touch PDK was great with these Russian doll moves in his books reminds me a bit of the recent SNL sketches I listened to this as an audiobook on Audible and found it pretty good although Joe's accent at times sounded Russian than Italian I have not watched the TV show derived from this classic scifi novel but can say that it stands very solidly on its own and is up there with the other novels of PDK that I have read Highly recommended Will stick around in your brain for a while after reading it
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The Man in the High CastleE centrarse preferentemente en la cotidianidad de los americanos derrotados dentro de una cultura japonesa victoriosaLa acción se desarrolla en en la costa Oeste de los ue otrora fueran los Estados Unidos ahora PSA Pacific States of America zona de influencia japonesa Los nativos son ciudadanos de segunda clase a pesar de ue su cultura es admirada por los vencedores a tal punto ue uno de los mejores negocios es la venta de auténticas antigüedades americanas como relojes de Mickey Mouse Este mundo nos es descrito a través de las vidas de Robert Childan Fran. Fans of Philip K Dick and science fiction might be underwhelmed by The Man in the High Castle since other than passing mention of cross continent rocket ship travel and a German exploration of Mars there really isn’t any science or signature PKD craziness or large scale action; rather Dick’s 1962 book is alternative history the aftermath in the United States after Germany and Japan win World War II and a novel of ideas There are a number of crisscrossing plots colorful main characters applications of the ancient Chinese I Ching; however by my reading the heartbeat of the novel is the author’s historical political social commentary reflections on cross cultural miscommunication and observations on racial and ethnic prejudice – all laced with a healthy dose of black humorAh black humor as in this snatch of dialogue when judo instructor Juliana Frink talks with a fellow American Joe the truck drive in a Colorado small town ““Did you hear the Bob Hope show the other night” she called “He told this really funny joke the one where this German major is interviewing some Martians The Martians can’t provide racial documentation about their grandparents being Aryan you know So the German major reports back to Berlin that Mars is populated by Jews”” Meanwhile the German Reichs Consul in San Francisco Freiherr Hugo Reiss doesn’t fine Bob Hope one bit funny; in point of fact he thinks the Aryan super race might indeed find Jews on Mars since those loathsome Jewish vermin are everywhere elsePKD 1960s style self referential postmodern metafiction anyone Novel within a novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen is about what the present day world would look like if Germany and Japan lost the war Abendsen’s novel is all the rage an honest to goodness American literary fad the book is banned back in Germany and in lands such as the Eastern United States controlled by Germany Curiously rumors have it the author of the outrageous Grasshopper bestseller is a paranoid living in isolation on a Wyoming mountain in a fortress like house surrounded by barbed wire and heavy artillery calling himself The Man in the High Castle Perhaps the author’s armed isolated fortress isn’t such a bad idea since Freiherr Hugo Reiss has a predictable Nazi reaction when reading the book “Maybe this Abendsen is a Jew They’re still at it trying to poison us Actual name probably Abendstein If Abendstein should be found dangling from the ceiling some fine morning it would be a sobering notice to anyone who might be influenced by this book We would have had the last word Written the postscript”And such a paranoid racist mindset is hardly confined to the German Nazis Here are the thoughts of Robert Childan a good old American boy from San Francisco after his less than satisfying business dealings with someone who is Jewish “We live in a society of law and order where Jews can’t pull their subtleties on the innocent We’re protected I don’t know why I didn’t recognize the racial characteristics when I saw him Evidently I’m easily deceived Without law I’d be at their mercy He could have convinced me of anything It’s a form of hypnosis They can control an entire society”With its scathing satire on culture and society and novel within a novel in many ways The Man in the High Castle reminded me of JR by William Gaddis than PKD’s other science fiction Similar to Gaddis all the men and women are than happy to spout their opinions and observations about the arts and books and literature; and than happy to make strident pronouncements about culture history and race not only on the Jews but among others Blacks Italians Japanese Germans Swedes White Americans Puerto Ricans Irish Turns out the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy claims his nightmarish novel is about the state of the world as it currently exists Perhaps PKD is telling us indirectly he is making a similar claim in his The Man in the High Castle