Abstract
Tore Rye Andersen: “Hello?: Episodes in the Literary History of the Telephone”Through analyses of three American novels – Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) – this article traces the major impact that the invention of the telephone has had on both society and the culture that reflects it. The medium of the telephone has thoroughly restructured the social space that is one of literature’s most important topics, and it has provided authors with new narrative strategies, new metaphors, new topics and new props, some of which are discussed in the article. The three analyses focus on different stages in the technological development of the telephone, and together they demonstrate how changes in the medium of the telephone also result in changed possibilities for literature.
Highlights
Hans Augusto Rey på hjemmelavede cykler fra Paris, få timer før nazisterne indtog byen
I en parallel til deres eget ufrivillige eksil starter bogen med, at aben Peter uden dikkedarer bortføres fra sin hjemmevante jungle til Amerika af manden med den gule hat
Han bevarer sit gode humør og sin hang til abekattestreger, der i et gennemteknologiseret samfund som det amerikanske endog får nye muligheder for at gå ud over andet end Peters allernærmeste omgivelser
Summary
Hans Augusto Rey på hjemmelavede cykler fra Paris, få timer før nazisterne indtog byen.
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