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Consumed (Paperback)
David Cronenberg
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Franz Kafka s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish
transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century
later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It
is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one
morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This
hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge
Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle
millions of readers. In her new translation of Kafka s masterpiece,
Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity
in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa s
grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his
longstanding spiritual impoverishment."
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Maps To The Stars (DVD)
Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson; Directed by David Cronenberg
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The Weiss family are an archetypical Hollywood dynasty - Dr Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist whose self-help books have made him a fortune. His wife Cristina is the overbearing mom-ager of their thirteen-year old son, Benjie, a prodigious child star fresh out of drug rehab, and their estranged daughter Agatha has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital.
Agatha is now back in Hollywood making friends with a wannabe actor named Jerome, and has landed a new job as PA to one of Stafford’s clients - the neurotic and tempestuous actress Havana Segrand, whose dream of reprising her dead mother’s starring role from the 1960s is beginning to haunt her.
Cronenberg on Cronenberg charts Cronenberg's development from maker of inexpensive 'exploitation' cinema to internationally renowned director of million-dollar movies, and reveals the concerns and obsessions which continue to dominate his increasingly rich and complex work. This edition brings Cronenberg's work up-to-date with an additional chapter on Crash.
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Consumed (Paperback)
David Cronenberg
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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and
camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors -
nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the
social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels
and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines
surrounding Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers
and sexual libertines. Celestine has been found dead and mutilated
in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, has
disappeared. Naomi sets off in pursuit, but the secrets she
discovers are as seductive as they are disturbing. Nathan,
meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of
an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltan Molnar. After sleeping with one
of Molnar's patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's.
Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who
identified the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now
studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behaviour masks a
devastating secret. These parallel narratives become entwined in a
gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing,
North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an
incredible number of varieties, sex. 'Consumed' is an exhilarating,
provocative debut novel from one of the world's leading film
directors.
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