Generation X: fortællinger for en accelererende kultur

by Douglas Coupland, Klaus Lynggaard (Translator)

"Vores indre var holdt op med at fungere, forstoppet af hørmen fra fotokopieringsmaskiner, bumsecreme, lugten af det papir, aktier er lavet af, og den endeløse stress, man får af formålsløse jobs, udført modvilligt og uden påskønnelse. Vi led af besættelser, som fik os til at forveksle indkøb med kreativitet, æde nervepiller og gå ud fra at bare vi lejede en video lørdag aften, var det alt nok. Men nu, hvor vi bor herude i ørkenen, er tingene meget, MEGET bedre."

Douglas Couplands kultklassiker "Generation X" præsenterer os for en håndfuld desillusionerede unge, der deler mere eller mindre fantastiske historier fra deres liv. Skilsmissebørn, yuppier, arbejdssky eksistenser, bartendere, konspiratorikere og unge fra slummen mødes og udveksler historier, drømme, holdninger og skrækscenarier. Tilsammen tegner de et billede af den amerikanske Generation X, som blev født efter 1960 og forsøgte at gøre op med babyboomer-generationen, som deres forældre repræsenterede.

"Generation X" udkom første gang i 1991 og strøg hurtigt til tops på bestsellerlisterne. Romanen er blevet en klassiker inden for den postmoderne zeitgeist-litteratur.

233 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2023

About the author

Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008.

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