Double Negative
Ivan Vladislavic
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Penguin Random House South Africa
Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
A senior photography introduces a young man to the intricacies of photography. If, he says, I try to imagine the lives going on in all these houses, the domestic dramas, the family sagas, it seems impossibly complicated. How could you ever do justice to something so rich in detail? You couldnt do it in a novel, let alone a photograph. The novel follows the young mans broken path, as he goes overseas, finds a career, and then comes back to a changed Johannesburg. In the process, the book develops an ever-widening perspective not only on change in the country, but also on questions to do with seeing and being seen. It brings into sharp focus South Africas recent history and the difficulty of depicting it. Double Negative was first published in November 2010 in TJ/Double Negative as the fictional companion to David Goldblatts book of Johannesburg photographs titled TJ