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“Berberian’s terrorist is a cyclist. Cycling is his preferred method of transportation, his intended means of delivering a bomb, one of his passions. His other passions are food, his girlfriend Ghaemi, and justice, roughly in that order. The novel begins with our unlikely protagonist lying in coma after a bicycle accident…”
Article posted Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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i) the review link is broken by being encumbered by some local quotation – should be http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0743222830.asp
ii) is this the positive image we want to be promoting?
look beyond the images. i read an article he wrote in the FT a few weeks ago. he is a gifted writer. a wake up call. the book is original and berberian treats the bicycle with love and respect. it is not the bicycle that is responsible for the violence. maybe it is the dreadful politics of the middle east. you have to make that separation. read the book, it is a narrative cycle.
the food references in spileberg’s movie, Munich reminded
me of The Cyclist. also, the pregnant wife, the baby, the
conflicted and sensitive portrayal of the protagonist. even
the joke about “unPasteurazied” french cheese I had come
across in the book and the dinner gatherings, the references
to baklava. there are bycicles in the movie as well, a short
scene in holland.
read the book first, it is more enigmatic, then see the movie.