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100 Years of Vicissitude

Andrez Bergen

Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 131 Users | 35 Reviews

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Title	:	100 Years of Vicissitude
Author	:	Andrez Bergen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	October 16th 2012 by Perfect Edge Books
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan

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"First up, a disclaimer. I suspect I am a dead man. I have meagre proof, no framed- up certification, nothing to toss in a court of law as evidence of a rapid departure from the mortal coil. I recall a gun was involved, pressed up against my skull, and a loud explosion followed." Thus begins our narrator in a purgatorial tour through twentieth-century Japanese history, with a ghostly geisha who has seen it all as a guide and a corrupt millionaire as her reluctant companion. Thrown into the milieu are sake, B-29s, Lewis Carroll, Sir Thomas Malory, Melbourne, 'The Wizard of Oz', and a dirigible - along with the allusion that Red Riding Hood might just be involved.

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1780995970 (ISBN13: 9781780995977)

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Mr. Wolram E. Deaps mentions early in 100 Years of Vicissitude that there is no neat beginning with which to start things.Since Wolram is the central character and narrator of the story, I wondered what was to come. As this mysterious, thoughtful, and occasionally horrific story unfolded, I realized that while a neat beginning was never promised, the sum of a life can be tidily bundled into packets of time, which provide a workable method to scrutinize ones existence.We meet Wolram after his

This novel is, in certain ways, more a history lesson than it is a narrative. It's quite an interesting novel, though, both linguistically and structurally. It's a journey through the afterlife and through memories, both personal and cultural.A dead woman leads a dead man through her memories of the tragedies forced upon the japanese people during the 20th century. It illustrates the decimation of japan at the hands of western powers and the way that effected culture and people and lives. At

Our chief protagonist Wolram E Deaps, first seen in the scifi noir TOBACCO STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT, has past away and now resides in the hereafter; a strange halfway home between life and death - a place where memories are relived in all their gore and glory.Accompanying him is a geisha, Kohana, having also past away following an innings of 100 (or there abouts). Despite the triple figure, Kohana resembles a teenager - one of many mysteries that enthralls Deaps. Initially there seems to be little

Were it not that someone asked to hear what I thought of 100 Years I would not have persevered. I'd read the first few chapters and was struggling to make sense of things - frankly, it was a bit too Philip Marlowe for me (and I LOVE Philip Marlowe). I started again and am glad I did!A passage which sits with me refers to Wolram E as he acknowledges how little he knew of Japanese history (WW2 in particular) - the winner writes the history, his lack is my lack. Only way to address that will be

The transition from Bergen's first book, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, to this second book, is pretty ingenious: (view spoiler)[one book's departed antagonist is another book's hero (hide spoiler)]. The Australian Wolram meets a Japanese geisha in an alternate reality, and an adventure across time and memory ensues. One Hundred Years of Vicissitude starts as a slow boil, then fragments into a shocking story of betrayal, revenge, destruction, love. It's very striking technically because the book

Privy to the manuscript version and loved the story. Differs greatly from Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat but still very much Bergen's style.

It took me a while to get into the book and didn't really like it at first. It's an adventure - if you will - of an older man who dies and meets up with a Japanese woman in the afterlife. They visit memories from her past and then start visiting ones from his. Most of them were sad memories as if they needed to reflect on what had happened.