A Living Soul
by P. C. Jersild
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Ypsilon is a human being reduced to the most basic essentials, a naked one-eyed brain floating in an aquarium of nutritious liquid. Through his consciousness we observe his obstinate struggles to maintain his freedom of action in this utterly dependent situation - to assert the right to express his anger, to fall in love, to run away - whilst it slowly dawns on him that he is a part of a wide-ranging scientific experiment. In this fantasy about a society which is scientifically only slightly show more more advanced than our own, the Swedish novelist P C Jersild explores the resilience of the human spirit set against the threatening Big Brother of technological progress. Like most of his other novels, it paints no rosy picture of the future of mankind, yet it celebrates the defiance which cannot be eradicated as long as the mind itself remains intact. show lessTags
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This book is incredibly fun/bizarre despite the scary subject. A pageturner
Sverige, ca 1985
Hovedpersonen er en isoleret hjerne, der lever i en slags akvarium og kaldes ypsilon.
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Hovedpersonen er en isoleret hjerne, der lever i en slags akvarium og kaldes ypsilon.
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Author Information
49+ Works 1,230 Members
Jersild became a doctor of medicine before he turned to literature. He loves telling a good story and does so fluidly and with bizarre humor. Jersild's often absurd and improbable worlds hold up an unflinching mirror to the failings of modern society. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Goldmann (8972)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Living Soul
- Original title
- En levande själ
- Original publication date
- 1980
- Original language*
- Schwedisch
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.78 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish miscellany
- LCC
- PT9876.2 .E7 .L4813 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Swedish literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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Statistics
- Members
- 112
- Popularity
- 290,526
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- 9 — Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 1
