Resumo de The Algebraist

Through the years I have read many novelists! But its comparatively recent times, that I have picked up
a book written by the author Iain Banks.

This particular book drew my attention as it was marketed in a well known bookstore locally
as
ONE FOR THREE

this means that you can get three books for a controlled price! Well, why not!

I have been reading this book now for about a week, dipping in an out of the pages, its rather
a daunting exercise as most of Iain Bank's prose is not only allegorical but symbolic!

Where will the Human Race be in the year 4034 AD - well, somewhere in the Stars! I turned the Television on in a London Hotel to hear about the imminent departure of another spacecraft to PLUTO! Apparently it will take this
spacecraft ten years to arrive at PLUTO. What the purpose is? Well, its to do with seeing what goes on up there! Is there anything we havent seen - well now is the time to start seeing it. Perhaps the space persons
might find Real Heaven! I certainly hope so!

Banks' story flows into strange and magical prose: some of the characters emerge but seem then to
disappear into the fabric of his story telling! I must admit I found the dialogue quite delightful.

/WHT U MYN/ is an example of this almost modernist approach to writing which is in conflict with
a more direct speech emphasis in characterisation and plot! Its a lot like Beat Poetry: sometimes you can get totally lost in the manner of the delivery! With further reading the characters evolve their own
class dialogue, obviously in 4034 AD! I, myself, would challenge the existence of our present class
language structure in 4034 AD! I am not sure I would endorse such wild ungrammatical utterings but obvious mis-spellings! I used to believe that the reason writers and poets :

include /U/ instead of /YOU/ was to draw my attention to the nature of the absurdity of spelling! I am a great one for correct spelling: After all at my Convent Preparatory School I got ten out of ten spellings correct! So it used to jarr rather to see this obvious joking approach to such serious matters of langauge and grammar: it, would my Headmistress would have said in those bygone days:

/DISTORT MEANINGS/

I fell for Iain Banks lines in this Algebraist-type of story: he is punning on my favourite examination qualification at eleven years old of ALGEBRA! Everybody had to do well at Algebra, especially me: the formulae fascinated myself and all the other little swots of that particular generation - at that particular point in time.

Space age wriiting no doubt, for our space age generation! Well done Iain Banks!

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