authors influenced by Pynchon

[Ya Sam]

Naast verwijzingen naar Paul Austers “New York trilogie”, is de gelijkenis 
met het werk van Thomas Pynchon treffend. “Zwerm” bulkt van de fascinatie 
voor wetenschap en technologie, en net als in de boeken van Pynchon is een 
complottheorie de stuwende kracht achter het verhaal.
Deze link naar de Amerikaanse grootmeester is jammer genoeg ook de zwakte 
van het boek.

http://www.cuttingedge.be/books/verhelst/zwerm

Peter Verhelst
Swarm (Zwerm)
A kaleidoscope of our present-day world
In Zwerm (‘Swarm’) Peter Verhelst has generated a kaleidoscope of the 
violence, commotion, tense relationships, conflicts and outbursts of our 
present-day world. Some storylines refer to real events such as the My Lai 
massacre of the Vietnam War or the attack on the Twin Towers, both 
manifestations of mindless violence. However, Verhelst recreates reality in 
the form of a literary thriller that has been assembled in fragments, like a 
film. Some characters are grafted on to controversial figures who were 
briefly newsworthy.

Most are fictional: a young computer nerd who makes viruses and is traced 
through sophisticated techniques because of the secret he carries, his 
kidnapped girlfriend, a pianist, an Israeli scientist who has to abandon his 
family at a critical moment and assume a new identity. Their lives 
intermittently overlap in a world that seems overrun by electronic detection 
and espionage, computer crime, international political conspiracies and 
terrorism, war crimes, liquidations, and cover-ups. The action takes place 
mainly in Europe and the United States, Israel and Palestine.

http://www.nlpvf.nl/book/book2.php?Book=486

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