Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows Come Home - Blum, Alan
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Alan Blum's concerns are dramatized in the surreal narrative of his novel Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows Come Home. He inverts the genre of magical realism that injects fiction and fantasy into a realistic tale as a way of showing how life needs magic, by showing alternatively that magic needs a dose of the Real to deal with life. A beleaguered professor decides to study hatred by doing research on the Anti-Hate unit of the Toronto Police Force. After becoming entangled in the clichés governing public opinion about what is inoffensive rather than meaningful the professor is himself accused and tried for a hate crime.…mehr

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Alan Blum's concerns are dramatized in the surreal narrative of his novel Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows Come Home. He inverts the genre of magical realism that injects fiction and fantasy into a realistic tale as a way of showing how life needs magic, by showing alternatively that magic needs a dose of the Real to deal with life. A beleaguered professor decides to study hatred by doing research on the Anti-Hate unit of the Toronto Police Force. After becoming entangled in the clichés governing public opinion about what is inoffensive rather than meaningful the professor is himself accused and tried for a hate crime.
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Autorenporträt
Noted sociologist Alan Blum's studies are sensitive to the interplay of words, meanings, and thought, and all their dimensions in human inquiry. Through events and workshops in London, New York, Montreal, Italy, and Greece, Blum has sought to create communities of interest oriented to collaborative research focusing on this question. He lives in Toronto.