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Anonymous Celebrity
What if everything he learned from his television, from the movies, from what he heard on the radio, was treated as an absolute andincontrovertible truth? And what, then, if this man was amoral, cunning, and willing to lie, seduce, and kill to save himself fromanonymity?With an army of consultants, a library of "how-to"manuals, and an endless variety of product p...more
Paperback, 420 pages
Published
August 18th 2009
by Dalkey Archive Press
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Brandao, Ignacio de Loyola. ANONYMOUS CELEBRITY. (2002; this trans. from the Portugese 2009). ****. This is the story of a man who thought that going through life in an ordinary way was no life at all. You were either famous or you were nothing. We never learn his name, but we learn a lot about his thoughts and his extensive plans on how to become famous. His work involved his standing in for a famous TV actor in a soap serial. He did this because he looked exactly like that famous actor...more
i wanted to like this book because it seemed to be near the taolinwave genre
it had all of the things i hate about that specific style of hypermodernpostsomething writing of richard yates
with none of the things that i really loved
i'm not sure if that is helpful.
it had all of the things i hate about that specific style of hypermodernpostsomething writing of richard yates
with none of the things that i really loved
i'm not sure if that is helpful.
a bit chuck palahniuk-esque, but entertaining and brash.
I really enjoyed this book on a postmodern, metacommentary about images, self-image, and constructions of fame level. It would totally be a four star book, except I really really hated and felt let down by the ending. Total cop out.
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“The photo was published in the majority of Brazilian newspapers in a full-page spread when CNN and all the television channels of the world broadcast the scene, they froze it for a few seconds. Or minutes, hours, I don't know. For me time has infinite duration--I don't know how to measure it by normal parameters. Trying doesn't even interest me. From the World Trade Center buildings, minutes, prior to their collapse--which would appear as a perfect and planned implosion--only a grayish-blue and black vertical lines can be seen. Like a modernist painting--by whom? Which artist painted lines? Mondrian? No, not Mondrian, he painted squares, rectangles. Anyway, in the picture, the man is falling head first. his body straight, one of his legs bent. Did he jump? Slip? Did he faint and then fall? He probably lost consciousness because of the height, the smoke. He fell. He disappeared from the scene, from life, from the city. A million tons of rubble buried him soon after. Nobody knows his name. Impossible for his family to have him identified. He's an unknown who entered into history at the twenty-first century's first great moment of horror--the history of the world, the United States, communications, photography. Without anyone knowing who he is. And nobody will ever know. We'll only have suppositions, families who'll swear that he was theirs. But was he Brazilian, American, Latino, Chinese, Italian, Irish--what? He could have been anything, but now he's nothing. One among thousands gone forever. And, while we're on the subject, what about the firemen who supposedly became such heroes that day--can you name a single one?”
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