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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (1991)

por Jonathan Coe

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Maxwell Sim can??t seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his best friend since childhood is refusing to return his calls. He has seventy-four friends on Facebook, but nobody to talk to.
In an attempt to stir himself out of this horrible rut, Max quits his job as a customer liaison at the local department store and accepts a strange business proposition that falls in his lap by chance: he??s hired to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands, part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental-hygiene company intent on illustrating the slogan ??We Reach Furthest.?
But Max??s trip doesn??t go as planned, as he??s unable to resist making a series of impromptu visits to important figures from his past who live en route. After a string of cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward misadventures, he finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of his GPS system (??Emma?) and obsessively identifying with a sailor who perpetrated a notorious hoax and subsequently lost his mind. Eventually Max begins to wonder if perhaps it??s a severe lack of self-knowledge that??s hampering his ability to form actual relationships.
A humane satire and modern-day picaresque, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining novel about the paradoxical difficulties of making genuine attachments in a world of advanced communications technolo
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For those unfamiliar with Mr. Coe's storytelling, you're in for the surprise of your life. Characters created, in this case Maxwell Sim, are deep, colorful and full of surprises. Stories weave back and forth, often with unexpected twists. Then to add more creativity, he throws in yet another twist at the end, one you never see coming. This was the second book by the author I read, having first read "Number 11". Jonathan Coe has become one of top 5 authors and I recommend you all give it a shot. Just picked up "The Rotter's Club" from the library and am looking forward to more great characters and story. ( )
  Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |
"But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, ‘What’s the point?’ And then you stop."
I am not agree with the most readers, to me the ending of the book feels like clearly and profoundly thought out. It all adds up here! ( )
  vexierspiegel | Jan 9, 2023 |
Tiene cuarenta y ocho años y es un antihéroe muy contemporáneo, un perdedor tranquilo que ha perdido el gusto por las relaciones humanas, con setenta y cuatro amigos en Facebook y nadie con quien hablar: Maxwell Sim. Caroline, su esposa, lo ha dejado hace seis meses y se ha llevado a su hija con ella. Y un día Maxwell tiene una oscura iluminación: está terrible, absolutamente solo. En un intento por salir de su depresión, acepta un raro trabajo: llevar a las islas Shetland la buena nueva de unos cepillos de dientes revolucionarios. Pero el viaje de Max será un sinuoso camino de reencuentros y de inesperados descubrimientos, con la aparición de cartas, diarios y manuscritos que reescribirán su propia vida.
  Natt90 | Jul 20, 2022 |
A solid read. Maxwell Sim is depressed and gradually falling apart. As he chats away to his satnav on his work's Prius you know he is doomed. Emma, the satnav, becomes his best friend and he talks through his worries with her while Emma sticks to the point, the route. The route is a meander through the UK, heading for the ferry from Aberdeen to Shetland. We first meet Maxwell Sim visiting his father in Australia. It is an unsatisfactory visit and he returns to his empty home unhappy. His wife and child recently left him. The road trip is the classic trip of self discovery and revelations about his father's life. Jonathan Coe uses short stories written by other characters to reveal other perspectives on events in the past and reveal the truth about his father. The novel becomes broken and chaotic as Maxwell Sim spirals down into self loathing and identification with Donald Crowhurst, a tragic lone yachtsman from the 1960s. Jonathan Coe brings us back to a conclusion and then surprises readers by bringing the author into the ending. ( )
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9 marzo 2009, Maxwell Sim, neo-agente di commercio, viene trovato nudo e in coma etilico nella sua auto in Scozia. Nel bagagliaio un cartone pieno di spazzolini ecologici. Cos'è accaduto? Torniamo indietro di qualche mese: Maxwell ha quarantotto anni e sta attraversando un periodo difficile. Appena divorziato, in cattivi rapporti con il padre, incapace di comunicare con la figlia, non ha nessuno al mondo con cui condividere i suoi problemi. Decide di accettare una curiosa opportunità di lavoro: un viaggio da Londra alle isole Shetland per pubblicizzare un'innovativa marca di spazzolini ecocompatibili. Ben presto si accorge che il viaggio prende una direzione più seria, che lo porta nei luoghi più remoti delle isole britanniche, ma soprattutto nei più profondi e bui recessi del suo passato.
  kikka62 | Feb 21, 2020 |
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Flauw wordt het als Coe in het laatste hoofdstuk op de valreep nog een metafictionele laag toevoegt, door een ontmoeting tussen Maxwell en de auteur te beschrijven. Het voelt dan bijna alsof Coe een standaardrecept uit een kookboek voor hedendaagse romans heeft gevolgd: een flinke scheut ironische distantie, een vleugje emotie, precies genoeg verschillende plotlijnen, regelmatig toegevoegde maatschappijkritiek, een snufje metafictie en dan goed roeren. Door de keurige bereiding wordt het wat al te licht verteerbaar, maar wie dat niet stoort vindt in De afschuwelijke eenzaamheid van Maxwell Sim een vermakelijk tussendoortje.


adicionada por SimoneA | editar8Weekly, Emy Koopman (Aug 1, 2010)
 
Dus ja veel droefheid, maar zeker geen doffe vertelling. Zo is er een episode waarin Max tijdens een lange vlucht, terug van een zoveelste woordenloze ontmoeting met zijn uitgeweken vader, zijn oeverloos levensverhaal aan een medepassagier vertelt, met dodelijk gevolg. Max beseft niet dat de passagier naast hem aan het raam ondertussen aan een hartaanval gestorven is. Net als enkele andere wendingen in het boek is dit niet helemaal overtuigend en geloofwaardig uitgewerkt, maar het stoort niet echt in dit meeslepende boek, vol verrassende kronkels die soms aan het werk van Paul Auster herinneren. In “De afschuwelijke eenzaamheid van Maxwell Sim” vertelt Jonathan Coe op een luchtige en toch scherpe wijze over de onwerkelijkheid van nieuwe communicatiemiddelen en van de bedenkelijke economische drijfveren van onze tijd. Bedrog en zelfbedrog zijn sleutelwoorden. Vader en zoon Sim die hun seksuele verlangens ontkennen of verdraaien, ervaren dat tot hun en andermans ongeluk.
adicionada por SimoneA | editarCobra, Johan de Haes (Jun 22, 2010)
 
Het beste deel van de roman is trouwens helemaal niet grappig. Dat is een ontroerend kort verhaal, The Nettle Pit (‘De brandnetelkuil’), over een gestrand huwelijk waarin de man geen oog heeft voor de behoeften van zijn eigen dochter, maar wel voor de zoon van zijn beste vriend. Maxwells ex Caroline heeft het geschreven in haar schrijfclubje, en het steekt een beetje dat de stijl beter is dan de delen van het boek die we door Maxwells simpele ogen beleven. The Nettle Pit werd vorig jaar al gepubliceerd in de zomerverhalenbundel Ox-Tales Earth, en losstaand was het al goed. Hier is het het hart van de roman.
adicionada por SimoneA | editarNRC Handelsblad, Ellen de Bruin (May 21, 2010)
 
Het goede nieuws voor die verbolgen recensenten is dat zijn nieuwste, De afschuwelijke eenzaamheid van Maxwell Sim, een 'echte' Jonathan Coe is. Een bij vlagen hilarische zedenschets, waarin hij een satanische blik werpt op de wereld van de moderne, door technologie overwoekerde mens. En, ja, je komt weer geweldige scènes en overpeinzingen tegen in deze satire. Geestig en scherp, pijnlijk herkenbaar en hartverscheurend lachwekkend tegelijk.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Maxwell Sim can??t seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his best friend since childhood is refusing to return his calls. He has seventy-four friends on Facebook, but nobody to talk to.
In an attempt to stir himself out of this horrible rut, Max quits his job as a customer liaison at the local department store and accepts a strange business proposition that falls in his lap by chance: he??s hired to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands, part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental-hygiene company intent on illustrating the slogan ??We Reach Furthest.?
But Max??s trip doesn??t go as planned, as he??s unable to resist making a series of impromptu visits to important figures from his past who live en route. After a string of cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward misadventures, he finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of his GPS system (??Emma?) and obsessively identifying with a sailor who perpetrated a notorious hoax and subsequently lost his mind. Eventually Max begins to wonder if perhaps it??s a severe lack of self-knowledge that??s hampering his ability to form actual relationships.
A humane satire and modern-day picaresque, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining novel about the paradoxical difficulties of making genuine attachments in a world of advanced communications technolo

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