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Doppler loses his father, leaves his family and decides to move into the woods. When he kills a she-elk for meat, he's adopted by her calf with whom he gradually becomes friends. He names the little elk Bongo. This is a charming, absurd and subversive novel with serious undertones and criticism of our modern consumer society.
- Sales Rank: #1069790 in Books
- Published on: 2014-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .90" w x 5.10" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 176 pages
Review
'Wonderfully subversive, funny and original' Observer. 'A darkly comic fable which makes some astringent points about the way we live today' Independent. 'It gripped me from the very first page and I read the entire thing in a single day. It was unusual in that it was both powerful and entertaining; a rare combination that is difficult to pull off' Farm Lane Books. 'Funny and a touch dark ... [Doppler] is like a Nordic Obi-Wan' Big Issue. 'An absurdist, hilariously subversive novel' Saga. 'Compelling, disquieting and perceptive' Adresseavisen. 'Shamelessly charming without intellectual fuss' Stavanger Aftenblad. 'With Doppler Erlend Loe has become Norway's most alarming writer' Dagens Naeringsliv. 'There's much to enjoy in Loe's dead-pan comedy.' Financial Times.
About the Author
Erlend Loe has appeared on the stage and has worked in film and video production. He has been a critic for the Worker's Newspaper, worked in a psychiatric hospital, and been a substitute teacher.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
My Father's Recommendation
By Greg A. Moore
My father, who is 70, recommended this book to me after reading it. His wife had given it to him. After reading it, we both need to think hard about why people - and these people in particular - would recommend this book to us.
The story is a simple one with some gloriously absurd details, describing a middle-aged yuppie who suddenly withdraws from the corporate/suburban life. He shuns human contact, until he encounters others who latch onto him, attracted to his plain and unevangelical disdain for society. He shuns money and 'things' but must have skimmed milk on a regular basis, craves chocolate, and thieves throughout his old suburban stomping grounds for tools.
This is a story of contradictions. He leaves his family behind, but adopts an elk. He loves the elk, but easily reconciles the fact that he is eating the elk's mother for most of the book. He idealises a life of meaninglessness and nothingness, but builds a monument to his father and his family with the goal of preserving the best parts of his family for posterity.
If the book has been successful, I think it is because it resonates with a class of people (mostly middle aged family men) who are afraid that their lives are full of mindless demands to go through the motions of work, family, friendships and wealth creation. Without ever really living something real. For many of us, going off to live in a tent sounds pretty good. The difficulty of tearing yourself away from material things and emotional ties is, to me, what the book explores. In a whimsical way, this is a Buddhist tale of leaving suffering behind by forgetting the self.
I'm still not sure what Dad was trying to say by recommending this book though.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Doppler, you (m)animal!
By Stefan Gazenov
As my wife and I headed out on holidays overseas with a copy of 'Doppler' on hand, I joked that we were about to reinforce a number of Canadian stereotypes for our fellow vacationers; “Look darling, Canucks! Even on the beach they read up on moose!” A comedic disposition was my approach to reading the English translation of this novel, subtitled “An enchanting modern fable about one man and his moose” (ISBN: 9781770893009).
The plot of the book is simple; Doppler’s father has died. This has forced Doppler (the protagonist and narrator of the novel) to move into a nearby forest to reflect on his own life. While trying to live as a hunter-gatherer, he kills a moose for sustenance and adopts her calf (Bongo). One day he discovers that his spouse is pregnant with their 3rd child; she gives him 6 months to rejoin the family back in town.
In creating the character of Doppler, Erlend Loe has designed a modern-day anti-hero, one that we struggle to like. He has abandoned his wife, their young son and adolescent daughter; he has left his job, putting the family in financial peril. Throughout the text we see instances which demonstrate all sorts of ‘classical’ transgressions (stealing, lying, sloth, anger, etc.); if this was a Homeric epic, Odysseus’s vengeance would be swift and bloody.
So why do some readers inevitably like the protagonist? In an interesting inversion, Doppler, devoid as he is of ‘traditional’ virtues (loyalty, generosity, impartiality, prudence), possesses many of the skills valuable in a capitalistic society – individualism, self-confidence, outspokenness, situational adaptability. The interplay is subtle, playful – humorous. Doppler personifies a juxtaposition; he hates the world of consumerism but is ‘endowed’ with the tools required to succeed there. Despite his self-proclaimed ‘hunter-gatherer’ mentality, he lacks the skills conducive to outdoor living (hence all the petty theft) but has all of the rigging required for urban survival. We sort of like Doppler because he is naïve, ‘dopey’, and out of his true natural element.
One of the most enjoyable things about the book is the narrative and the various tricks it employs to incite us into further reading. The 1st person, character-based narration chosen by Erlend Loe is bold – it’s all Doppler, all the time. Turning over the story to a single personage, one that is not necessarily ‘pleasant’ company, can be problematic as it predisposes the tale to bias. How does Doppler’s wife feel about him leaving? How does she cope with the financial pressures, or the social stigma she might have to burden as a pregnant woman whose husband is playing boy-scouts in a Norwegian forest? What do the children think of their absentee father? None of these questions are answered through an external viewpoint – the narrative is a monologue and any attempts to turn it into a dialogue are precluded by Doppler. The monotonic account is troublesome, but also a catalyst to turn the pages, for another reason; we can’t be quite certain if our anti-hero is a trustworthy ‘source’. The possibility of an unreliable narrator are both apparent and implied – Doppler seems to have suffered a concussion following a bike crash; for most people blackouts and paralyzing pain are a reason to seek medical attention, not seclusion in a forest in the pursuit of enlightenment. The implied undependability lies in the dialogue portions of the narrative – all dialogue is devoid of quotation marks. This isn’t what people actually said; it’s sort of what people said; according to a protagonist with a moose for a best friend. We read the story to see if the moose isn’t the only thing that’s a little Bongo here – only comedy can seek to provide refuge in craziness.
Erlend Loe also succeeds in creating tension between the themes of isolation and cultural dependence, often using narration to echo the dichotomy. The use of sub-stories about events & characters (i.e. inset narratives) almost begs us to ask ‘Why do we need a recap of Lord of the Rings? What’s with all the references to children’s programming? Is this just filler?’ These insets directly contribute to character development, in oblique ways; Doppler, the self-proclaimed loner, continually alludes to the most social medium of all - television. Culture is omnipresent; you are not ‘out of’ it because you are in isolation, you’ve just ‘switched the channel’. Try as he might, Doppler is unable to resist the siren song of society – a melody that for our anti-hero takes the form of ‘Bananas in pajamas’. Cultural dominance is also evident in Doppler’s extensive use of clichés (e.g. “the lazy, hazy days of summer”, “I’ve toed the line for so long”, “You and me, kiddo”, etc.). In a way, Loe has no choice but to use these formulaic expressions; truisms, through their familiarity to the reader, immediately accelerate the illusion that a character is an ‘everyman/woman’. Clichés, however, are also the time-beaten limestone of language, the calcified product of endless repetition; in short, Doppler – the scourge of humanity – uses the most conformist of phrases to demonstrate individualism.
The genre and the book’s ending both indicate a modern comedy. The subtitle for the Canadian release, “An enchanting modern fable about one man and his moose”, points to two literary traditions – fables and modernism. The earlier style often provides a pithy moral lesson – “treat others as you wish to be treated”, “don’t take credit for someone else’s work”, etc. Yet this novel is completely devoid of such hermetic closure; Doppler seems to get precisely what he wanted – freedom to wander the forest – newborn, wife, and daughter be damned. There is no problem resolution, no justice, no retribution, no moralism. This is what makes the work modernistic – questions remain unanswered as our disillusioned, unheroic, character walks away free of social, domestic, and familial obligations. At best we are looking at an inverted fable; Doppler becomes moose-like (a solitary animal) and learns nothing. There is time for one final joke, located in the ominous-sounding ending: “To be continued…”. Prolepsis (i.e. letting us know what will happen in the future) can take various forms, but it was occasionally used by novelists to drive-up book sales (Daniel Defoe’s 'Robinson Crusoe' closes in similar fashion); if the text sold well, a sequel was quickly published. A conclusion of this kind, preceded by a 180 page anti-capitalist tirade, makes Erlend Loe’s 'Doppler' elegantly comic and a worthwhile read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Short, and brimming with meaning
By Reeka aka BoundbyWords
This book happened at exactly the right time in my life. I've come to a point where the things, and moments, that had meant something for SO long, have now become frivolous, and unnecessary. I pretty much wanted to highlight every other sentence in this novel, and if I hadn't borrowed it from work, I probably would have. Also, I have not laughed out loud the way I did while reading this book in a very, very long time.
Doppler lived a life of man with a wife and two children, one teenaged girl, the other, a boy, still floating through a cloud of innocence at the precious age of 3. We don't meet their acquaintance initially though, as the book opens into an expanse of greenery, and open air-the forest, Doppler's new residence. We learn that after living a rather routine life, and upon hearing that his father has died, Doppler-with the help of a painful epiphany-has given it all up, packed it all in..or er..out, and set up house in the woods. He has also adopted a moose-calf, and is quite content with it all.
Such a simple joy this book was. I savoured Doppler's days of leisure, and commended him for turning his back on the conventional. Though I didn't exactly agree with this lack of responsibility for his family, I found myself wishing that we could all be so lucky-to find happiness in the less obvious things. It made me feel privileged in the worst way, sitting in my room, on my fancy leather couch, sipping from fancy mug of tea, reading the truths of truths.
"You're here and then you're not. From one day to the next. I saw it all in a flash and realised that the difference is so overwhelming that the mind has to acknowledge its limitations and pass. All the things you can be and have, a then at the drop of a hat all things you cannot be and have because you have been and had for the last time."
Doppler was an extremely funny character-I LOVED his musings, especially the ones that involved him speaking to Bongo, the moose-calf. I felt the love in that relationship more strongly than I feel with characters in a romantic situation-this was pure, and not one bit contrived. Just a simple love for someone/something that was only able to listen-no judgement, no awkward conversation. I also appreciated Doppler's ability to contradict his beliefs, and quite easily at that-in his quest to abandon society, he ended up unintentionally helping others in their own search for meaning. It's corny, but it gave me a new sort of hope for humanity-people can be good, even when they don't mean to be.
This book was short, and brimming with meaning. I recommend it to anyone who ever sought to think beyond the daily routines and obligations of life. Anyone who's ever just wanted to say, "No, I'm not doing that today. I think I'll go for a walk instead." Someone who's just wanted to keep on walking, see where it would take them. That person needs to read this book.
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