Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
von Jeff VanderMeer
A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAACThe Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers―they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding―but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
von Jeff VanderMeer
A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAACThe Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers―they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding―but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(3)
Rezension von Oliver GehrmannIch habe vor ein paar Jahren die Netflix-Adaption von Alex Garland gesehen, die ich großartig fand, und wollte mit dem Buch eine Weile warten, da sich die Bilder des Films doch relativ stark in mir festgesetzt hatten. Und trotz des Film-Einflusses hat sich in mir beim Lesen eine ganz eigene visuelle Welt aufgetan, was auch an der großartigen Übersetzung von Michael Kellner liegt (ich habe es auf Deutsch gelesen). Das Buch ist weird, anders fokussiert als der Film, vielleicht etwas weniger aufgeräumt als dieser, was für den Roman aber richtig gut funktioniert. Und mir war beim Sehen des Films gar nicht bewusst, wie sehr der Plot von der Romanvorlage abweicht, was aber weder dem Film noch dem Buch schadet. Der Roman war auf die beste Art und Weise weird, schnell, soghaft und extrem atmosphärisch. Auch wenn das Ganze plottechnisch extrem gut ausgearbeitet ist, hat mich, und das hat mich selbst überrascht, die Beschreibung der Atmosphäre und das ganze weirde Worldbuilding am meisten abgeholt. Came for the plot, stayed for the atmosphere und so. Und das ist auch, was ein halbes Jahr später von diesem Buch bleibt, die creepy und lebhafte Stimmung, dieses Verwischen zwischen Realem und Unheimlichen, die permanente, unterschwellige Anwesenheit des Gefühls, beobachtet zu werden, und der seltsame Wunsch, trotz dessen bald wieder in diese traumhaft-schaurige Welt eintauchen zu wollen.
Rezension von kristina Movie is 4/5
Rezension von Natália Oliveira<blockquote><b><i>“We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”</i></b></blockquote> I don't know how I feel about this book. I like the concept, but I don't think I liked how it was done. I love mysteries and thrillers and suspense mainly because at the end we have the big explanation, answering the questions we had during the novel. I need to know things in the end, that's why I love Agatha Christie's book and detective novels in general. And the main thing that bugged me here is that we're left at the end with even more questions than when we begin and almost no answers at all. All the weirdness is just for the sake of being weird, and that's that. So I was really angry when I finished this. Also, I couldn't like the main character at all. She's hateful and definitely have some neuropsychological issue. I enjoyed the movie adaptation more than the actual book, and I don't know if I'll continue with the trilogy.