· SAME SAME. by Peter Mendelsund ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 5, “What the project is, only the project knows.”. So we learn as this enigmatic tale, Mendelsund’s (What We See When We Read, ) debut novel, winds its way to a close. Percy Frobisher might have done well to turn around when, on arriving at the desert retreat known as the Institute, he is greeted with the words, “Welcome . Unsurprisingly, Same Same is very much about re-producing: copying, imitating, re-presenting works of art in new (or identical form) -- a fictional commentary also on Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in an age of even more advanced reproduction. So, for example, one of the projects by a fellow at the Institute is to recreate some grand fundamentalist-destroyed statues Author: Peter Mendelsund. Praise for Same Same “Peter Mendelsund’s first novel manages to be breezy and profound in equal measure, and the balance turns this homage to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain into a clever metafictional sendup of artists’ retreats and tech-industry think tanks (containing) some of the most perfectly tuned passages of fiction I’ve read in a long time.”.
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