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The Intuitionist: A Novel af Colson…
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The Intuitionist: A Novel (original 1999; udgave 2000)

af Colson Whitehead

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An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction.… (mere)
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Titel:The Intuitionist: A Novel
Forfattere:Colson Whitehead
Info:Anchor (2000), Edition: 1st Anchor Books Ed, Paperback, 272 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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The Intuitionist af Colson Whitehead (1999)

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    Moderløse Brooklyn af Jonathan Lethem (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: Creative spins on the genre of detective fiction with intricate webs of corrupt people and organizations with obscure motivations
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This book is probably being taught in college lit courses, right? It's the kind of book that's kind of hard for me to read on my own because it's got so much in it worth talking about. Jeff was like, Then join a book club. But I don't want to talk to just anybody about it. I want Roberta Davidson and Andrew Osborn. John Desmond and Meredith Goldsmith. Give me DPQ even!

I guess what I'll do is go look up articles about it in the lit rags. Maybe I'll even print the articles out and write my opinions in the margins. Sigh. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
The baloon kept deflating until it was out of air. Couldn't finish it. ( )
  postsign | Dec 28, 2023 |
A mystery about elevators and their inspectors. What a story. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
A peculiar halting noir with two main features. The story is one of mid-twentieth century type bigotry set in a Steampunk-like world where there are two battling philosophies on the nature and function of elevators, the Empiricists and the Intuitionists. The protagonist is an African-American Intuitionist elevator inspector-ess who takes the role of the detective and becomes something more than that. Among the author’s various accomplishments are the avoidance of all the puns and simple metaphors that spring to mind, including who is taking the fall when an elevator plunges to its destruction and the significance of the elevation of the African-American characters to become elevator inspectors. Ultimately, I think the reader’s question will be, “Is there some other message for me here in this complex construction?” If I knew, I would rate this more highly. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
So smart. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
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A dizzyingly-high-concept debut of genuine originality, despite its indebtedness to a specific source, ironically echoes and amusingly inverts Ralph Ellison’s classic Invisible Man.... Whitehead skillfully orchestrates these noirish particulars together with an enormity of technical-mechanical detail and resonant meditations on social and racial issues, bringing all into a many-leveled narrative equally effective as detective story and philosophical novel. Ralph Ellison would be proud.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerKirkus Reviews (May 20, 2010)
 
The young African-American writer to watch may well be a thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead... Whitehead unfolds his raddled undercity with the terse poetry and numinous dignity of the early Malamud. The prose is a gas, bubbly, clean, often funny in its bursts of mock-mandarin social exposition:
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerThe New Yorker, John Updike (Apr 30, 2001)
 
...an ambitious, wide-ranging exploration of racial struggle and the dynamics of social progress. The idea of physical elevation, of course, has obvious metaphorical significance in this context, and Whitehead makes much of it, framing his subject as a contest between warring conceptions of how best to lift people from one level of being to the next.... He's obviously trying to do for second-generation elevator transport what Thomas Pynchon did for alternative mail delivery in ''The Crying of Lot 49'' -- using it ironically as a metaphor for a radical new way of restructuring the accepted reality. That's a tall order, but the fact that Whitehead has succeeded as well as he has is news worth spreading. Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, but if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heading toward the upper floors.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerNew York Times, Gary Krist (pay site) (Feb 7, 1999)
 
A stunning contemplation on race, The Intuitionist brings to mind the strength of Ralph Ellison and the quirky brilliance of Thomas Pynchon. Whitehead crafts an entire culture around elevators, complete with specifications, internecine philosophical battles, founding fathers, and corporate shenanigans.... By turns literate, thrilling, comic, and poignant, Whitehead lifts readers into this strange world and never allows identity politics to turn the book into an ideological jag.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerBookPage, Mark S. Luce (Jan 1, 1999)
 
In this Gotham-esque sweatbox, every footstep echoes like a nickel hitting the bottom of a penny bank. Whitehead has created a self-contained universe in this novel, complete with its own mythology and history (re-created at length in the course of the narrative), and it is to his credit that he is able to weave in a meditation on race. He has a completely original story to tell, and he tells it well, successfully intertwining multiple plot lines and keeping his reader intrigued from the outset.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerPublishers Weekly (Nov 30, 1998)
 

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It's a new elevator, freshly pressed to the rails, and it's not built to fall this fast.
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But before he can say something more, something tangible that Lila Mae can use to prepare herself, the tunnel eats the transmission. Like that. Then there’s just the agitated scratch of static inside her sedan and the earnest humming of multiple tires on the tunnel floor outside. Near silence, to better contemplate the engineering marvel they travel through, the age of miracles they live in. The air is poisonous.
Government buildings are generally squat rather than tall, presumably to better accommodate deep file drawers of triplicate ephemera. So it has been for generations.
The drivers mellow once they hit the city because they remember again what the city is like and get exhausted, one by one as they exit the tunnel, and can’t remember why they were in such a hurry to get there. The internecine system of one-way streets and prohibited U-turns makes retreat a difficult enterprise. This is on purpose.
They can turn rabid at any second; this is the true result of gathering integration: the replacement of sure violence with deferred sure violence.
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An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction.

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