Manfred: Confession of an Alien
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Manfred: Confession of an Alien
14.99 €
One fine day (depending on how you look at it) in the life of Manfred, a 35-year-old programmer, somewhat down-on-his-luck, not very healthy, deeply disillusioned, and rather despondent—in short, a typical specimen of Homo sapiens—an alien named Tsorrgh appears.
What good could this uninteresting Manfred do to a representative of a highly advanced civilization? Manfred triggered an intergalactic alarm: he or someone nearby had arrived at the right idea that could reveal the existence of alien civilizations to humanity, and Earth hadn't yet reached such a level of awareness. Tsorrgh had already prevented similar discoveries when Bosch, Descartes, Ada Lovelace, and Einstein were all close at hand. Bring Manfred under control, take control, study his surroundings, throw him off the scent, and disappear unnoticed? A piece of cake. But soon, the improved and unexpectedly intelligent Manfred reunites with his youthful love, Sabina, a complex woman with a mission of her own, and the undercover alien operation turns into a riotous farce that risks lives and sanity.
Thomas Lehr is one of the greatest and most original figures in contemporary German literature, a programmer and philosopher, a mocker and polymath whom critics compare to Thomas Pynchon, and we would compare him to Jaume Cabré. His "Manfred: Confessions of an Alien" is a philosophical novel mixed with farce, a satire and a parable, a tragicomedy staged on the sawdust of a circus arena. Highly advanced civilizations look down on comical humanity from cosmic heights and laugh helplessly—and what choice do they have? Better to laugh than to cry.
What good could this uninteresting Manfred do to a representative of a highly advanced civilization? Manfred triggered an intergalactic alarm: he or someone nearby had arrived at the right idea that could reveal the existence of alien civilizations to humanity, and Earth hadn't yet reached such a level of awareness. Tsorrgh had already prevented similar discoveries when Bosch, Descartes, Ada Lovelace, and Einstein were all close at hand. Bring Manfred under control, take control, study his surroundings, throw him off the scent, and disappear unnoticed? A piece of cake. But soon, the improved and unexpectedly intelligent Manfred reunites with his youthful love, Sabina, a complex woman with a mission of her own, and the undercover alien operation turns into a riotous farce that risks lives and sanity.
Thomas Lehr is one of the greatest and most original figures in contemporary German literature, a programmer and philosopher, a mocker and polymath whom critics compare to Thomas Pynchon, and we would compare him to Jaume Cabré. His "Manfred: Confessions of an Alien" is a philosophical novel mixed with farce, a satire and a parable, a tragicomedy staged on the sawdust of a circus arena. Highly advanced civilizations look down on comical humanity from cosmic heights and laugh helplessly—and what choice do they have? Better to laugh than to cry.
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