The Music Of Chance
(Paul Auster)
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A text that is very sustainable and contemporary. A much more enriching
experience to read this book, than to stay home Friday night and check your
buddy list, just to rediscover that everybody's away.
?The Music of Chance? has been transformed to a movie with James Spader in
the leading role as Pozzi. A movie far below what the book has to offer. Why?
The main characters in "The Music of Chance" are Jim Nashe and James Pozzi.
Their names are irrelevant since it is what they do that defines them. Jim
Nashe has received a lot of money from his unknown father. He pays his
debts, puts his daughter in care with his sister in Minnesota and then tours
USA in his SAAB. He takes a beaten hitchhiker along, and spends the rest of
his money preparing this man, Pozzi, for his rendezvous with two eccentric
millionaires. An unpredictable fellowship occurs. He loses all the money,
including the SAAB and the additional money they have borrowed from the
wanna-bes. To pay off their debts, they rebuild a medieval Irish wall, much
like the Hadrian Wall. They live in solitude on the building ground, a field,
during the construction. Pozzi ends up in the hospital and Jim Nashe kills
himself, together with his supervisors after the completion of the wall.
Jim Nashe is the authorial voice during the book. We experience his
development as well as everybody else he encounters. He listens to a lot of
classical music, somewhat of an intellectual but seems to be having a narrow
minded view of the world. He sees every action, as reactions to his actions,
instead of acknowledging how big part luck plays in life. He goes through
despair and eventually salvation caused by ?luck? or ?misfortune?. This
illustrates that Jim Nashe is a contemporary man in modern society with a big
big identity crisis. What are his essential values? What is he really fleeing
from? Why are we all fleeing? What is it we have lost? Have our identities
vanished? Which missing values do we long for? What are the ramifications for
the individual and the community when the values of our society have to be
reinvented? How have they indeed been changed? For better or worse?
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