Comments on: Disorder: Juli Zeh’s “Corpus Delicti” http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/ * Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Corpus Delicti by Juli Zeh | Best2Buy eBooks Blog http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-3466 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:52:45 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-3466 [...] Whereas critics have repeatedly pointed out the strained ‘artiness’ of Juli Zeh’s novels, from the construction down to the metaphors, in Corpus Delicti, they are balanced by the writer’s fury, which injects a full load of feeling ……More at Disorder: Juli Zeh’s “Corpus Delicti” « shigekuni. [...]

]]> By: Corpus Delicti by Juli Zeh | Best2Buy eBooks http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-3408 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:46:38 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-3408 [...] Dystopian novel “Corpus delicti” one of the best and most translated contemporary German writer Juli Zeh deals with us today, and raises questions about rights to privacy, freedom of choice, about resistance and rebellion against the system. Novel is both science fiction and courtroom drama, and an accomplished thriller but above all, powerful prose that speaks of longing for freedom. Whereas critics have repeatedly pointed out the strained ‘artiness’ of Juli Zeh’s novels, from the construction down to the metaphors, in Corpus Delicti, they are balanced by the writer’s fury, which injects a full load of feeling ……More at Disorder: Juli Zeh’s “Corpus Delicti” « shigekuni. [...]

]]> By: shigekuni http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-363 Mon, 11 May 2009 16:34:15 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-363 Yeah but the major point of Zeh’s novel is everyday behavior. The genetic screening is just a necessity for the society she depicts. Actually, one could use Zeh’s (rather mediocre) novel to criticise gattaca. Zeh is about choice, about keeping clean every day, about NOT SMOKING, about eating healthy, procreating in a genetically sensible way. Sickness is a crime, because you become sick by choice. Genetic screening takes away that choice, so in Gattaca you have to escape the screening to step outside. It’s choice. And you will excuse me, but Zeh’s point is very much influenced by her being German. The old myth that, in the third reich, you had to conform or else, is not quite true, not as much as, for instance, in Stalinist Russia. Bad things happening are not the result of a small nomenclatura doing bad things. It’s the majority of people agreeing that the bad things are good, or at least necessary and not bad. Gattaca is somewhat muddling this point of individual choice.

]]> By: Amanda http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-362 Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:18 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-362 Interesting review, Shigekuni. Thank you.

Have you seen the film ‘Gattaca’? The idea of genetic screening and of punishing/ostracising people who are genetically ‘inferior’ (because their parents decided to allow them to be born ‘naturally’, rather than being screened and ‘repaired’ while still in the womb, therefore risking sickness etc, comes to mind reading your review.

]]> By: shigekuni http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-361 Mon, 11 May 2009 01:48:13 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-361 Thanks, and yeah. Well. Nice. Much better, and one of the best German novels of the past years is Trojanow’s “Collector of Worlds”. Highly recommended. http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/field-work-ilija-trojanow%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cder-weltensammler%E2%80%9D/

]]> By: gem http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/disorder-juli-zeh%e2%80%99s-corpus-delicti/#comment-360 Mon, 11 May 2009 01:24:23 +0000 http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/?p=982#comment-360 Awesome review. Have you read Measuring the World?

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