| 词条 | Gerald's Party |
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| name = Gerald's Party | image = File:GeraldsParty.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Robert Coover | illustrator = | cover_artist = Carin Goldberg[1] | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | publisher = Linden Press | release_date = 1986 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 308 | isbn = 0-671-60655-7 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Gerald's Party is the fourth full-length novel written by Robert Coover, published in 1986. The book encompasses a single night at a party given by the title character and narrator, Gerald. Though the murder of a beautiful actress is central to the plot, Coover's text has little in common with a traditional murder mystery. He appears to be approaching the murder mystery genre with the goal of subverting/exhausting its possibilities. A comparable strategy can be seen in his retellings of fairy tales (see Briar Rose, Pricksongs), and his reframing of movie conventions (Ghost Town, A Night at the Movies). Like Coover's other later works, this is experimental fiction. The text regularly returns to themes of sex, violence, and a blurred boundary between theatre and reality. Plot introductionAs Gerald tries to describe the things around him in painstaking detail, he recounts simultaneous conversations and events as they happen by using a format similar to data packet handling. After describing a small part of a situation or a conversation, he moves on to a small part of a different conversation, then returns to the first conversation, or maybe moves on to a third or a fourth, returning each time to try to be as accurate as possible while recording the events. Major themesThe tone of the novel is humorous, and there are many puns, double-entendres, jokes, sight-gags, and deliberate ironies. There are also graphic depictions of various bodily functions, including different types of sexual intercourse. Gerald, speaking in what could be described as stream-of-consciousness, often appears unaffected by the decadent and orgiastic events that surround him, and, in addition, he comes across as an unreliable narrator. References1. ^[https://www.flickr.com/photos/13313279@N04/sets/72157625652290628/show/ Modern first editions - a set on Flickr] {{1980s-crime-novel-stub}} 3 : 1986 American novels|Crime novels|Fiction with unreliable narrators |
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