Книга: Алекс Гарленд, Alex Garland «Beach»
In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise. What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek. Издательство: "Penguin" (2011)
ISBN: 978-0-241-95237-5 |
Alex Garland
Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British
Garland is the son of political cartoonist Nick Garland. He attended the independent
His first novel, "The Beach", was published in 1996 and drew on his experiences as a backpacker. The novel quickly became a cult classic and was made into a film by
"The Tesseract", Garland's second novel, was published in 1998. This was also made into a film, starring
He wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film "Sunshine", starring "28 Days Later" lead
Garland also wrote the first screenplay for Halo, the film adaptation of the successful video game franchise by
His partner is actress/director
Awards / Nominations
* 2004: Nominated for "
* 2004: Nominated for
External links
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* [http://www.spikemagazine.com/0599alexgarland.php Backpacker Blues: Spike Magazine interview with Alex Garland]
* [http://www.salon.com/feb97/alex970211.html "Beach Boy" interview]
Источник: Alex Garland
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