{"id":1741,"date":"2010-12-06T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/11\/28\/975-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T12:49:24","slug":"fiskadoro-br-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/12\/06\/fiskadoro-br-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiskadoro (BR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiskadoro<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0Denis Johnson’s<\/strong>\u00a0second novel, published in\u00a01985.<\/p>\n

The novel is set\u00a0beyond<\/a>\u00a0some\u00a0apocalypse. It is not a dying world, although it is set in the shadow of one.\u00a0Fiskadoro<\/em>\u00a0describes a vibrant culture, be it one scarred by\u00a0radiation\u00a0and\u00a0bombs, employing\u00a0shibboleths\u00a0to ward off the present: “the quarantine will be lifted” (is there even one?<\/em>), “Bob Marley will come” (who do they mean? and what?<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Here and also south of us, the beaches have a yellow tint, but along the Keys of Florida the sand is like shattered ivory. In the shallows the white of it turns the water such an ideal sea-blue that looking at it you think you must be dead, and the rice paddies, in some seasons, are profoundly emerald.<\/em>\u00a0(Ch.1 – first lines)<\/strong><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The people speak a creole, live in shantytowns (or maybe ruins of towns from\u00a0before<\/em>); they make life. Strange markets distinguish\u00a0paper money\u00a0from\u00a0change money<\/a>. Societies search for a history – one day they find a book on\u00a0Nagasaki, and they wonder, was this the bomb that made their world? or could be from still before? is it all fiction? Strange religions mix\u00a0Bibles\u00a0and\u00a0Korans\u00a0and\u00a0Bob Marley\u00a0and\u00a0Bruce Lee.<\/p>\n

‘Whatever happen go happen. Fugdat shit!’<\/em>\u00a0(Ch.4)<\/strong><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are strange parallels in the peoples’ memories. Mr Cheung’s grandmother\u00a0remembers<\/a>\u00a0in her\u00a0waking<\/a>\u00a0dreams<\/a>\u00a0fleeing Vietnam at the\u00a0American War’s<\/a>end.\u00a0An end of the world<\/a>. Mr Cheung’s clarinet student is taken by a cult who cut his groin and\u00a0take<\/a>\u00a0his memories with a blue pill. They want to\u00a0remember<\/a>\u00a0the world but can’t.<\/p>\n

In a world where nothing was familiar, everything was new. And if you can’t recall the previous steps in you journey, won’t you assume you’ve been standing still? If you can’t remember living yesterday, then isn’t your life only one day long.<\/em>\u00a0(Ch.6)<\/strong><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Johnson is the son of an American\u00a0diplomat. Interviewed about the novel he says that he tried to convey those years. Being a diplomat’s son\u00a0transformed<\/a> into a story of a survivor. The story was cut loose from the events of survival, becoming absorbed in the perspective of the\u00a0boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every day he imagined the moment when his father, thinking of nobody, totally cut off from everyone he knew, totally as if he’d been born swimming for his life and never known anything else, gave up and drew the first breath of water.<\/em>\u00a0(Ch.4)<\/strong><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiskadoro\u00a0is\u00a0Denis Johnson’s\u00a0second novel, published in\u00a01985. The novel is set\u00a0beyond\u00a0some\u00a0apocalypse. It is not a dying world, although it is set in the shadow of one.\u00a0Fiskadoro\u00a0describes a vibrant culture, be it one scarred by\u00a0radiation\u00a0and\u00a0bombs, employing\u00a0shibboleths\u00a0to ward off the present: “the quarantine will be lifted” (is there even one?), “Bob Marley will come” (who do they mean? and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,198,204],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-book-review","category-everything2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":238,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/06\/06\/gullivers-fugitives-tng\/","url_meta":{"origin":1741,"position":0},"title":"Gulliver\u2019s Fugitives\u00a0(TNG)","author":"pastfarpoint","date":"June 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is number eleven of the TNG novels and Keith Sharee's only Star Trek novel. 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