The Invisible Player [Paperback]

Giuseppe Pontiggia (Author), Annapaola Cancogni (Translator), Anna Cancogni (Translator)

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Paperback: 259 pages
Publisher: Hushion House; Trade PB edition (January 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0941419150
ISBN-13: 978-0941419154
Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 572 g

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Against a stylized backdrop of narrow alleys, dark vestibules and winding staircases, this novel, the author's American debut, focuses on a nameless professor who is attacked in a letter to the editor published in an academic journal and who becomes obsessed with discovering its anonymous writer. During the course of his investigation he comes into contact with various figures in academia who constitute an insular and nepotistic society. The professor's encounters with these colleagues deliver the novel's best satiric moments. But his quest to unmask the critic becomes tediously protracted and readers will find it difficult to muster empathy for him. The book's effect is best expressed in a metaphor from its pages: it is like "a hysterical pregnancy," eventually revealing a "truth that bursts forth in a sudden and complete release of air." In the novel's ambiguous ending, the letter writer's identity is not absolutely disclosed, and the professor's only revenge is a weak rebuttal. All this makes for an earnest performance rather than an enthralling story.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars difficult to believe, Oct 20 1999

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...but it's a great book. Psyconoir with culture, cold blooded slow hearted carachters that sink in their own lifes. Read it, even if you ignore who he is.

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