Resumo de Doppler 2 - Erlend Loe

Doppler is a cynical, sheepish man, who ridicules everyday reality. But in actuality, he is unbelievably dreary, depressed, crazy and without hope. He evnies Bongo, because he is weak and feels defeated by life. In fact, he runs from reality instead of trying to change it. Off to the forest. But what is most pathetic is the he can't see it as happening. He calls Dusseldorfs models meaningless, but they really represent the same principals that Doppler has: longing after purpose. When he contrasts himself and Bongo to Josef and Maria, it looks like a call for help that he can't formulate. Maybe he has lost the ability to communicate with his children and wife. He becomes able to notice his little son, but he can't see his daughter's love, her need for love when she gives him his name in elvish or see that she doesn't like him, because he doesn't like people. He doesn't understand this code, "I don't like people. I don't like what they do. I don't like who they are. I don't like what they say," he says. But at the same time he is fearful of being alone and lonesome, and thinks that people are scared of one another. Despite all this, he is a human being and can't live all alone, therefore he becomes friends with an elk and humanizes it. He likens the loss of his father to the loss of the elk's mother. He considers Bongo a child. And it is Gregus, his son, that gives him hope. In the beginning of the book, he says that, "The elk believe that there are better places." He thinks in a very pessimistic way, but afterwards he becomes filled with hope. First he says, "... through the whole study, I thought about money and nothing... was always so clever... During all this elightenment, I have wandered around... I have breathed and gradually lost life." But after some time passes, his hope increases and Doppler can say, "There exists many forests." He begins to hear "The Wall" one more time, yet in another way than when he was 10. At the end, he is together with his son and will battle between intelligence and stupidity. Doppler is on the road back to his life, because he who fights all the time has no hope. Erlend Loe represents in this book a very special style. His naivity is nonchalant, often straight and visciously presumptuous, but at the same time, very comical. The books best side is absolutely the irony and wittiness. He says for example, "The biggest difference between Africa and me is that I don't like people, but Africa likes them a lot." It shows his power in comedy, and this power is the best and most important weapon he has against his depression and sorrow. When he commentson lying, he says, "Man says one thing and means something totally different. Fantastic." - this sets a sort of distance between him and life, a distance that helps to tackle this dreary life. Through sarcasm he shows man's artificial behavior and foolish perception of the world. Wit is his weapon against stupidity. He laughs about Norwegian culture, the 17th of May, and the whole Norwegian way of life. One of the most enlightening ironies of Doppler is when he tells about his daughter and says that she calls herself of course Nora, because his wife is named a symbol of the womens rights movement, but for Doppler she would like to have been called Building Master Sun Goddess. And when their son is born on the 17th of May, and his wife wants to call him Bear Star, he says, "My wife's wittiness knows no boundaries." It is a commentary on Norwegian "cleverness," and affability, and idealism and so on. My biggest accusation with "Doppler," and Loe's whole naivity, is that it trivializes major philosphy and literature contents. Loe describes, very precisely, when Doppler contemplates war. It can be very amusing, but it is not enough for good literature. The point of the book is maybe the same as Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness," "We live as we die - alone." If one does a little comparing, it paths to this point are completely differentks, when it includes both language and content. I must admit that I prefer Conrad's slow-moving method, because when I finish, I feel like I've read the book. Doppler's reflections over his fathers death and the universe are unbelievably ad hoc and are very bad illustrations of the content. Generally the book is an interesting, amuzing and comedic beginning of discussion over the content taken up, for example aloneness and Norwegian life, but not a full realization of them.

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