Christian Kracht: The Dead

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Christian Kracht’s The Dead is an expectations bending book with more tricks than a circus.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we need without books?
0:23.7	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:28.6	This is Bookworm.
0:29.8	Today, my guest is Christian Croc.
0:33.1	The best thing for you to know is that is spelt K-R-A-C-H-T.
0:42.1	Some time ago, three years almost precisely, I found a book called Imperium.
0:50.5	I thought it was fascinating.
0:51.9	It was about a man who, fighting the battle of what it is healthy to eat,
0:59.0	ended up eating more or less only coconuts,
1:03.0	founding an island on which they only eat coconuts,
1:08.0	growing sicker and sicker and more and more miserable.
1:11.7	We followed this Candidian fable until it led to as necessary its unhappiness.
1:24.2	I came to have its author Christian Krocht on my program with great pleasure.
1:32.8	It's a very interesting book.
1:34.6	It was published by Faris Strauss and Cheru as his new book called The Dead.
1:41.7	Those of you who know a novella called the Dead by James Joyce are not
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