{"id":538,"date":"2007-03-23T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T23:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-03-23T01:47:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T23:47:24","slug":"jonathan-lethem-amnesia-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lethem &#8211; Amnesia Moon (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/015603154X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"015603154X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> The premise is a marvelous riff on the post-apocalypse theme. Starting out as a classic, nuclear holocaust story set in the desert, complete with mutants and vigilantes in old cars. But we soon realize something isn&#8217;t quite as it seems, and as the protagonist makes his way from the desert back to San Francisco, we slowly understand that what has happened is much more apocalyptic than the mere destruction of the physical that bombs bring about: mental coherence, the very fabric of reality itself, has somehow been damaged, and dreams, paranoia and neuroses bloom freely and infest the world of the real. In keeping with the very lost feeling that pervades the story, we never learn the truth about what people call &#8220;the break&#8221;, though several alternatives of it are offered. And this, I feel, is also the shortcoming of Amnesia Moon: the exchangeability of the different narratives robs the story of some of its impact &#8211; when everything seems possible, nothing can mean much any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise is a marvelous riff on the post-apocalypse theme. Starting out as a classic, nuclear holocaust story set in the desert, complete with mutants and vigilantes in old cars. But we soon realize something isn&#8217;t quite as it seems, and as the protagonist makes his way from the desert back to San Francisco, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,26,45,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-fantasy","category-geekstuffs","category-good","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}