Galapagos
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Probably one of his best books, Galapagos straddles incredibly over a period of one million plus years in human history?and in spite of this gargantuan scope, it comes out like a scintillating space-ship that didn?t even pale or fade out or showed a layer of intergalactic dust.
Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin due to their peculiar flora and fauna that have remained uncontaminated by billions of years of genetic development elsewhere, must have inspired this mad genius that Vonnegut seems to be, to spin such a masterly tale out of sheer imaginative force. He plays God with us, the reader is forced to watch with bated breath as he destroys the world in a series of pointless border skirmishes between paltry economies of Latin American nations ?but allows a handful of randomly selected people to leave on a luxury cruise.
Captained by a most incompetent drunkard and helped on by an intelligent middle-aged lady who foresees the dark future for humanity and crosses every imaginable boundary to get as many six primitive tribal girls impregnated without any sexual congress between this only repulsive sample of human maleness and the giggly teens. Vonnegut is a past master at black humor and comedy, and he lavishes the reader with dollops of both on every single page. His magic pen transforms heart-breaking tragedies into rip-roaring bouts of pure comedy, thus egging the turbo-charged mind of the reader to plod on and on? regardless of the absurdities, improbabilities even impossibilities.
Though the course charted by the sizzled captain is too erratic for description, that charted by Vonnegut to guide us through this massive dose of comedy peppered with his tongue in cheek remarks about all that is visible or invisible to us right now. Perhaps it would amount to sacrilege to spill more beans about the supercharged ending of the story, and it would belittle the author?s orgiastic spurts of imagination regarding the sad state of human beings who went through a million years of Darwinian evolution, one word would suffice to describe this magnum opus. Masterpiece!
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