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Tibor Fischer

    15 november 1959

    Tibor Fischer is een Britse romanschrijver en korteverhalenschrijver, die in 1993 door het invloedrijke literaire tijdschrift Granta werd geselecteerd als een van de 20 beste jonge Britse schrijvers. Zijn werk is sterk beïnvloed door zijn Hongaarse erfgoed en de ervaringen van zijn familie, wat duidelijk naar voren komt in zijn debuutroman die de overleving onder een communistisch regime onderzoekt. Fischers schrijfstijl wordt omschreven als rabelaisiaans, en zijn werk verkent thema's als identiteit en culturele botsingen. Zijn betrokkenheid bij de kunstwereld suggereert een genuanceerd begrip van artistieke expressie.

    Tibor Fischer
    Good to Be God
    The Collector Collector
    How to Rule the World
    Under the Frog
    Under the Frog
    The Thought Gang
    • The Thought Gang

      • 336bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      4,0(1383)Tarief

      A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. Ferociously funny, Fischer combines an extravagant sense of humour with a flair for the grotesque in this heady follow-up to the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog.

      The Thought Gang
    • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.

      Under the Frog
    • Under the Frog

      A Black Comedy

      • 250bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,6(10)Tarief

      A finalist for the Booker Prize, this debut novel is the bitterly funny account of two young men who survive the chaos of communism in post-World War II Hungary as part of a debauched traveling basketball team. 10,000 first printing.

      Under the Frog
    • How to Rule the World

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,1(16)Tarief

      Wildly entertaining and darkly funny, How to Rule the World is set in the world of factual TV making, in which Baxter Stone is driven by desperation and a lust for revenge on the self-appointed kings of taste and commissioning.

      How to Rule the World
    • The Collector Collector

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,5(95)Tarief

      The narrator of this novel is a 30th century BC clay pot which is being appraised by a woman art expert in England. The woman thinks it is a fake, which annoys the pot. It revenges itself by revealing the woman's lurid private life, in the process giving its unflattering opinion of humanity in general. By the author of The Thought Gang.

      The Collector Collector
    • Good to Be God

      • 270bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen
      3,3(31)Tarief

      Using a friend's credit card and identity, Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous failure might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle: dying and coming back to life...

      Good to Be God
    • Voyage to the End of the Room

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,3(460)Tarief

      Set against a backdrop of vibrant locales, the story follows Oceane, a reclusive graphic designer and former dancer, on a journey to confront her past. As she navigates from her South London apartment to the nightclubs of Barcelona and the battlefields of the Balkans, she sheds memories and seeks answers. With Tibor Fischer's signature sardonic humor, this novel offers a darkly comedic exploration of self-discovery, the complexities of human relationships, and the elusive nature of reality.

      Voyage to the End of the Room
    • A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the TLS, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed' takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you

      Don't read this book if you're stupid
    • The eighth volume in the British Council's "New Writing" series, which exists to promote the best in contemporary literature. This one features new writing from such people as Louis De Bernieres, Hanif Kureishi, Don Paterson, A.S. Byatt, William Boyd, Lana Citron, and Barry Unsworth.

      New Writing 8
    • Was geschieht, wenn ein Autor einen gescheiterten englischen Philosophen erfindet, der Mitte 50, fettleibig, faul und alkoholabhängig ist und nur griechische Philosophie im Kopf hat? Es entsteht eine Klamotte, besonders als dieser Philosoph in Südfrankreich Bankraubzüge plant. Sein einarmiger, einbeiniger Kompagnon, ein heiterer Bluter mit AIDS, verwandelt die Raubzüge in furiose Kabarettnummern. Bei einem Überfall auf eine Bank mit nur 4000 Francs verschenkt er großzügig Geld. Als sie auf ein anderes Räuberduo treffen, fordert er seine Kollegen zu einem seltsamen Duell heraus und kündigt die Überfälle in der Presse an. Dazwischen gibt es absurde Episoden aus dem Leben des Philosophen Eddie Coffin, der sich durch Stipendienveruntreuung und das Versaufen von Verlagsvorschüssen durchs Leben mogelt. Ein grotesker Höhepunkt ist Coffins Versuch, über ein Medium Informationen über das Leben nach dem „Großen Vorhang“ zu erhalten, wobei der herbeizitierte griechische Lyriker nur Chaos anrichtet. Slapstick-Einlagen und Ausflüge in die griechische Philosophie sorgen für zusätzlichen Humor. Coffin kombiniert in seinen Dialogen Sprache aus Gosse und Hörsaal und verleiht seinen Aussagen mit dem Buchstaben z eine besondere Note. Aphorismen und Kalauer machen die Übersetzung zu einer Herausforderung. Tibor Fischers Roman ist eine humorvolle Klamotte in der Tradition von Monty Python, die den Leser auf amüsante Weise unterhält.

      Ich raube, also bin ich