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Jim Dodge
Fup
Title: Fup
Author: Jim Dodge
Format: Audio CD
Language: German
Pages: 2
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 3036911286
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 6.2 MB
Download: allowed
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Harry Rowohlt, dieser alte Haudegen von Übersetzer und Vorleser, hat seit jeher eine gewisse
Vorliebe für schräge Geschichten. Insofern ist es keine Überraschung, dass er Jim Dodges Fup
übersetzt und als Audiobook inszeniert hat. Verwunderlich ist vielmehr, dass es fast zwei
Jahrzehnte gedauert hat, bis ein Verlag sich an eine deutsche Ausgabe gewagt hat. War dieser
Kurzroman des Amerikaners doch längst in 14 Sprachen übersetzt und zum Kultbuch avanciert.
Eine wirklich eigenartige Wohngemeinschaft hat sich da zusammengefunden. Zum einen
Granddaddy Jake, der sich auf seine alten Tage vor allem auf das Brennen seines
Spezialwhiskeys "Ol' Death Whisper" konzentriert, dessen Genuss angeblich ewiges Leben
verleiht. Sein Enkel Tiny hat neben dem Damespiel vor allem eine Leidenschaft: Unentwegtes
Zäunebauen, obwohl es auf der Ranch überhaupt nichts einzuzäunen gibt. Und Fup -- eine
Stockente "mit dem Appetit eines gefiederten Staubsaugers" -- wurde von den beiden als Küken
adoptiert und entwickelt sich rasch zum Mittelpunkt der Kleinfamilie. Diese drei schrägen Vögel
hätten -- nicht zuletzt mithilfe des Wunderwhiskeys -- ewig und glücklich zusammen leben
können, gäbe es da nicht den bösen Lockjaw: Ein Wildschweineber, der es auf Fup abgesehen
hat, und bei dem es sich laut Granddaddy Jake nur um eine Reinkarnation seines alten
indianischen Kumpels Johnny Seven Moons handeln kann.
Je skurriler die Story, desto mehr scheint sich Harry Rowohlt ins Zeug zu legen und alle
Register seiner Stimme zu ziehen. Und deshalb ist man schon ein bisschen traurig, dass dieses
abgedrehte Wild-West-Märchen nach zwei CDs leider schon wieder aus ist. --Christian Stahl
2 CDs, Spieldauer ca. 127 Minuten, ungekürzte Fassung.
Insightful reviews
Chris: I was excited about the prospect of reading this book since Stephen Fry has publically
advocated it and it looked interesting, I was not disappointed!
The tale chronicles the life of the three main characters; Jake, an elderly, abrasive old coot who
is rude in the extreme but also loveable. Tiny; Orphaned grandson who stays with Jake and
finally Fup; an overweight hen Mallard duck with a personality.
The three live together in Jake's modest home drinking moonshine and generally pleasing
themselves.
A previous reviewer said this was a 'spiritual tale' and I agree with her, there certainly are
spiritual undertones to it.
I have to admit I did not fully understand what happened to Fup at the end of the book. Perhaps
I was not supposed to as Jake often says in the book that there isn't any point is worrying about
things we will never understand, jut accept them.
If it wasn't for the strange ending this book would have got 5 stars.
Brian: I bought and read Fup after the book's title caught my eye at a used bookstore.
This is a funny, meander-y, and occasionally bawdy short novel about four unlikely characters:
1) FUP, an obese (thus flightless) female duck who communicates in quacks, hisses, and
pecks. She loves to eat, eat, eat! Her name is a play on words: Fup duck / fucked up.
2) JAKE SANTEE, a wily and lucky old gambler (and sex fiend) who spends his retirement
decades fine-tuning a "whiskey of immortality" recipe that was given to him, unsolicited, by an
Indian dying in an alley. (Most of Fup takes place in the late 1970s on Jake's 820-acre tract in
northern California — land won in a poker game.) Jake is Fup's co-caretaker. He names her Fup.
3) Jake's grandson, JONATHAN "TINY" MARKHURST, a brawny fence-building prodigy who,
for fun, spends all his free time building magnificent fences. Tiny is Fup's other co-caretaker. He
finds her, when she is a baby, at the bottom of a post-hole. Nobody knows how she got there.
4) An evasive wild boar, LOCKJAW, who may or may not be a reincarnated Indian, and who
seems to enjoy destroying Tiny's fences. "Lockjaw, so known because he'd never been heard to
utter a sound, was a legend in the coastal hills both for his size and the wantonness of his
destruction."
Before I began reading the book, the dust-jacket text made me afraid that the story would be
annoyingly "transcendental" — Fup was first published by a small press in Berkeley in 1983 (uhoh); then, following rave local reviews (uh-oh), Simon & Schuster released it nationwide — but it
dodges that bullet, mostly.
My hardcover Simon & Schuster edition is 96 pages and includes six illustrations by Norman
Green.
Jim: The blurb at the back of Fup, a novella by Jim Dodge, says: "Fup is a contemporary fable
that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all those who read it." I've read it – it was one of
my Xmas presents – and I'm still waiting for that "evangelical fervour" to hit me. I guess I've
missed the boat. It's not that I didn't like the book because I did like the book but I'm not a fervid
individual at the best of times so maybe it's simply me.
The problem with the book is its ending. The first 106½ pages are fine and I unreservedly
recommend them to you. And some people will even more highly recommend the following
pages and with an "evangelical fervour" I have no doubt. I can say that I certainly read the
remaining pages more than once and with much more care than I read the preceding pages and
I was certainly motivated to go back to the start to see if there were any clues that I had missed.
If you want a more detailed analysis please click on the link to my blog.
Raül De Tena: El subtítulo de “JOP” no es otro que “Una Fábula Moderna“, tal y como se
encarga de puntualizar Antonio Jimenez Morato en el acertadísimo prólogo de los angeles
obra. Y si por “fábula” entendemos ese típico relato protagonizado por animales personificados
que se ha cultivado desde Esopo hasta Richard Adams (¿es “La Colina de Watership” l. a.
última gran fábula de los angeles historia de l. a. literatura?), está claro que el adjetivo
“moderna” (en el buen sentido de los angeles palabra) es necesario para entender un libro
como el de Jim Dodge, donde los animales son animales y los humanos son humanos… Por
mucho que estemos hablando de unos animales y de unos humanos muy especiales. Tal y
como afirma Jiménez Morato: “El lector versado sospechará que se va a encontrar dentro de
“JOP“. Pero, posiblemente, salga un tanto confundido tras su lectura“. Y esa confusión es
comparable a l. a. que puede sentir cualquiera al acabar de ver cualquiera de los motion
pictures de Aki Kaurismäki, especialista a l. a. hora de fabular l. a. comicidad a partir de los
angeles fracción entre las preconcepciones del espectador y los angeles actuación inverosímil
de unos actores que, sin embargo, actúan con un rigor y una coherencia que refrenda los
angeles verosimilitud de lo que ocurre.Algo related hace (o más bien hizo mucho antes) Jim
evade en “JOP“, una novela corta que se bebe con fruición gracias no sólo a los angeles
capacidad sobrenatural del autor para l. a. verborrea rítmica y translúcida sino, sobre todo,
gracias a una colección de personajes tan redondos como los de cualquier fábula o cuento
tradicional. De hecho, lo más loable en l. a. construcción de caracteres de “JOP” viene a ser
que avoid consigue ampliar el nivel de complejidad de los personajes habituales en este tipo de
relato sin que eso signifique sacrificar para nada los angeles capacidad de estos de convertirse
en iconos perfectos, en mitos en miniatura como podría serlo un Garbancito o aquella Princesa
medio imbécil que no podía dormir por culpa de un guisante. Ahí quedan los angeles misma
Jop del título, una pata (de hecho, su nombre viene de lo primero que cube otro de los
personajes al verla: “¡jodido pato!“) ultraviolenta que acabará siendo motor de cambio para
todos los que los angeles rodean; o l. a. extraña pareja formada por Jake (un vejete que ha
exprimido los angeles vida y que sobrevive jugando a cartas profesionalmente y destilando un
whisky de casi a hundred grados al que llama Último Suspiro) y su sobrino Peque (un joven
gigantesco obsesionado con los angeles creación de cercas que nunca quedan claras si son
para que el mundo no invada su territorio o precisamente por terror a invadir el mundo más allá
del propio).Los personajes, al fin y al cabo, acaban siendo portadores de los simbolismos de
una historia que podría interpretarse en clave ecologista si atendiéramos exclusivamente a los
angeles fama de Jim evade (activista absoluto del biorregionalismo). No es sólo que todo el
relato se impregne de una visión de los angeles naturaleza preñada de ternura y que actitudes
ante l. a. vida como los angeles de Peque y su fijación por las cercas sean toques directos a l.
a. individualidad extrema y casi hermética de los angeles post-modernidad; sino que, al final,
los angeles trama acaba dando un giro mágico (hasta entonces había sido meramente
surrealista) que conduce hacia un ultimate alegórico de muerte, renacimiento y redención en el
que juega un papel muy importante Cepo, un jabalí que ha merodeado por las periferias de l. a.
historia siempre como una amenaza externa y vagamente indefinida y que acaba por revelarse
como espoleta de múltiples preguntas que relativizan todo lo vivido hasta ese momento (¿huía
Jop de Cepo o l. a. pata tenía una time table oculta?) y subvierten los angeles concepción de
bien y mal que hasta entonces pudiera ostentar el lector.Es necesario mencionar, además, l. a.
excelente edición con los angeles que desde Capitan Swing han envuelto a “JOP“,
amplificando sus bondades ya sea a través de los angeles sublimación estética que suponen
las excelentes ilustraciones de Virginia Frieyro o, sobre todo, a través de los textos de apoyo.
Ya he mencionado al principio los angeles excelente apertura que supone el prólogo de
Antonio Jiménez Morato, pero es inevitable ampliar el rango de elogios y dejar claro que su
texto es, probablemente, uno de los prólogos más efectivos que puede uno echarse al gaznate:
divertido cuando tiene que serlo, elocuente cuando toca, informativo siempre y, sobre todo, con
una capacidad para arrojar luz sobre l. a. novela de ward off de una forma ordinary que acaba
siendo más efectiva que los excesos de seso de, por poner un ejemplo, los tomos más
intelectualizados de Cátedra. Por si esto fuera poco, “JOP” se epiloga con una extensa
entrevista a shipment del siempre estimulante Kiko Amat: un nuevo alarde de que el periodismo
puede ser coloquial y directo y, a los angeles vez, profundo y lúdico. “JOP” es, probablemente,
ese libro que todos deberíamos leer antes de entrar en l. a. adolescencia y que nos haría mejor
personas. Por suerte para los que llegamos tarde, esta edición de Capitan Swing demuestra
que lo de sidestep también es un placer adulto. Y que nunca es tarde para ser mejores
personas.
Shawn: I knew i'd supply this 4 stars, yet needed to allow it settle with Me a minute sooner than
eventually identifying five. a really good written, poignant tale of an previous man's love for his
grandson, and a mallard duck who turns into part of their family. i would heard from others that
they have been moved to tears through the story, and that i can see why a few may well be. It
did not get Me relatively to that point, however the incontrovertible fact that i am nonetheless
considering at the tale an afternoon after finishing it means that it had a distinct impact. there is
such intensity to the story, and complexity to the characters. the truth that which may be
complete in lower than 60 pages is impressive in itself. hugely suggest interpreting this.
Ken T: Fup is the paranormal story in regards to the 6' 2" "Tiny", his ninety nine 12 months
previous Grandpa, and their duck - Fup. it's a tale approximately love, loss, and whiskey - ol'
loss of life Whisper, which Grandpa believes is the foremost to literal immortality. Fup is a
enjoyable learn and a humorous read. There are numerous components the place I proceed to
snicker out loud. however it can also be a touching story in regards to the bond among a father
(or grandfather) and son. stay clear of has created a a bit glossy fairy tale. Set in my very own
domestic of rural Northern California it captures either the coarseness and the wonderful thing
about the realm and its people. His characterization is spot on, even supposing there's little
improvement over the process this brief volume. the tale can be particularly mild on plot and as
an alternative looks a car for the presentation of a few really memorable scenes and lines. it's
best to learn Fup in a single sitting as Dodge's masterful use of language presents an incredible
tone for the paintings that are meant to no longer be interrupted. One caution - i might like to
percentage this publication with my younger son, yet I dare no longer due to a great deal of foul
language and a few sexual references. whereas they don't detract to the tale - they do in truth
healthy it really good - a few readers may well locate it offensive and it truly is no longer
intended for younger readers.
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