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Acide sulfurique by Amélie Nothomb
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Acide sulfurique (original 1999; edition 2005)

by Amélie Nothomb (Auteur)

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Sulphuric Acid tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.… (more)
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Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb (1999)

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    Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul (bluepiano)
    bluepiano: Both books are about groups of people being filmed for particularly nasty reality shows. And for another such account, this one focussing upon an individual rather than a group, have a look at Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe.
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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (IreneReads)
    IreneReads: both are set in the future and are about people fighting to the death on TV
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La scrittura della Nothomb riesce ad affascinarmi e avvincermi anche questa volta pur raccontando una storia di una crudeltà e una durezza sconvolgente.
Una satira feroce, brutale e implacabile del mondo dei reality e che ci racconta anche a quali punti di estrema bassezza possa arrivare l’animo umano ormai privo di una qualsiasi empatia anche difronte a esiti estremi.
Un racconto che assume anche tratti spaventosi e terrificanti e che mi ha imposto pause nella lettura per poterne smorzare e sopportare la crudezza.
Un'esposizione lucida e spietata per analizzare e riflettere sul genere umano e la sua crescente smania di spettacolarizzazione del dolore. ( )
  Raffaella10 | Jan 28, 2023 |
This is quite a disturbing book. It reminded me of Blindness by Saramago, and likewise has left me with the feeling that I have been punched on the stomach. I read one previous book by Nothomb – Fear and Trembling – but it did not prepare me for Sulphuric Acid.

In both books Nothomb makes an acute criticism of society, but while in Fear and Trembling – an criticism of corporate organizations, the Japanese corporations more specifically – she uses humour and satire, in Sulphuric Acid the theme does not allow for such an approach. The book describes a reality show where people randomly picked at a park are sent to a concentration camp and their suffering televised daily to an audience that grows bigger as the conditions at the camp deteriorates. Some very hard questionings are then explored: love, hate, God, death, freedom, human identity, social apathy.

Be aware this is not a book for the faint of heart and Nothomb is not a great literary writer as my comparison to Saramago may suggest, yet I highly recommend it for those brave enough.
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  RosanaDR | Apr 15, 2021 |
J'aime bien l'épiphanie de Zdena à la fin du livre. Pourtant, le scénario est trop flou (même si c'est voulu) pour être envisageable et présente des types, pas de vrais caractères (ca aussi, voulu). Alors, en tant que fable, ca ne porte pas forcément un grand intérêt puisque personne ne se reconnait.
  Kindlegohome | Jul 31, 2016 |
Etrange, très étrange.
La critique de la télé-poubelle est intéressante, mais son traitement est vraiment bizarre... La fin est par contre très réussie. ( )
  CathCD | Jan 16, 2016 |
Llegó el momento en que el sufrimiento de los demás no les bastó: Tuvieron que convertirlo en espectáculo Metáfora de la evolución de los realities y la televisión en general, el "siempre un poquito más lejos" degradando a la especie humana y aquí nadie hace nada. Al final se desinfla un poco, pero esa es mi impresión general de los libros de Amelie Nothomb. Sin embargo recuerdo que me enganchó muchísimo, me lo debí de leer en una noche.
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  L0r0 | Mar 22, 2015 |
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The time came when the suffering of others was not enough for them; they needed the spectacle of it, too.
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Sulphuric Acid tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.

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