ENGLEBY PLOT SUMMARY


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I don’t always need a happy ending. A gawky figure on the margins of student life, given to Hornbyish musings about King Crimson and Soft Machine, he is practically friendless, apart from a tenuous social life achieved by dealing hash, and an obsession with an unobtainable girl. Then you read it and exactly your expectation happens. Sep 09, Kurt Keefner rated it it was amazing Shelves: Mike is questioned by the police about the disappearance of Jennifer and claims Jennifer to be his girlfriend. It’s an illusion; it’s not reality if it can’t be held. And then a discovery, a belated gesture of empathy, and the fragments of evidence suddenly fall into a coherent pattern.

As a portrait it digs deeply into the mental furrows of a character that is desperate to understand the workings of its own convoluted mind. Without spoiling the plot too much, the way in which he intricately implicates us in the life of the protagonist, and builds up our sympathy for him, only amplifies the steady stream of blows the novel builds up to. The book was very good and very very well written, but I don’t know. Faulks has a way of writing that leaves the darker side of human nature laid bare on its pages and you are intimately exposed to it. It tells, in his own words, the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy from Reading who wins a place at grammar school, and then scholarships to public school and Cambridge, before becoming a Fleet Street journalist. Refresh and try again. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

Engleby idolizes Jennifer throughout the novel.

Nov 07, Erika Jhanie rated it really liked it. Suffering from some sort what we would now call personality disorder, I prefer this book to Faulks other work because it has a stronger voice. As a mystery it represents a classic page-turner. Dec 25, Asghar Abbas rated it really liked it. As a read, it is an excellent story: He has no sex life that we know of, though he is happy to plog what seems an idiot savant’s knowledge of contemporary prog rock and now-forgotten cigarette brands.

The final summayr makes it englebt worth it, though. He has no job…. I liked Engleby so much that I now regard it as my favourite Faulks novel of the fourteen he has written in twenty five years. More from the web. This was a really compelling read. He occasionally alludes to feeling isolated, but rejects englbey idea that he suffers from depression.

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I was filled with compassion and confusion and awe and distress by the end of this book. Engleby so brilliantly displayed a superior complex mind. But ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that turns out to be it; after setting up this intriguing premise in the first 25 pages, Faulks then spends another basically saying, “Yep, he’s still anti-social and a little creepy. He lacks empathy but Faulks wants us to know it too badly: For instance his memory is now photographic and infallible so why did he need to keep the diary for so long?

Books by Sebastian Faulks. I was hooked before even the plane had left the tarmac. Mike’s darkly humorous, sometimes monotonous in the most literal sense of the word, rather than the emotions it evokes in the reader voice lays bare the social and political landscape of Thatch Against all expectations, engley rather reluctantly, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. At the same time he is gripped by nostalgia for a notional past of ‘authentic’ Englishness.

I was intrigued by the premise so the pages flew in the first few chapters.

Engleby – Sebastian Faulks

Weirdly, this part of the novel turns into sorry a metafictional game as Faulks reviews aspects of his own novel such as characterisation and style. At least This was a very strange reading experience. With its strange blend of directness and concealment which ancient university? I began to think it was taking place in the early 70s, and sure enough my suspicions were eventually confirmed. This, you sense, is what Faulks has been waiting for — the chance to engage more directly with his subject.

Engleby’s reflections are cast in a wonderfully precise and luminous prose. Who would have thought that an ex-Cambridge graduate could have aroused such emotion in me, and cause me to reflect upon them for a long time afterwards?

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Engleby – Wikipedia

Faulks is certainly an incredibly intelligent writer, and this book may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but if you can hang in there, it’s worth reading. More from the web. I felt admiration,mostly because he’s smart. What is there to like? This is a great book, despite the narrative awkwardness that shows up in the end. When the girl goes missing, Engleby’s memory gaps and sudden rages take on an ominous significance, even as he sincerely mourns her loss.

The inside of an outsider’s mind

It is the frequent habit of dwellers in one low, dishonest decade to blame its unsatisfactoriness on the lowness and dishonesty of the preceding decade. I am absolutely sure I will reread the book, I’m tempted to read it again right now. I read Birdsong many years ago, and I think that’s the only Faulks novel I’ve ever read–and I frankly don’t remember too much about, including whether or not I liked it, so it’s unlikely I would have picked this up on my own.

Engleby’s memories prompt him not only to historical comparison but also to consider the nature of history, which he sees as somehow compromised by modernity “While the past is real enough – the only true reality – the present has insufficient depth to register it”and of time: A lesser writer may have lost me. What saves the book from utter tedium are some clever logistical juxtaposing perspectives and linguistic Engleby is quite a clever weirdo with occasionally entertaining musings tricks, though for the most part this portrait of a psychopath eng,eby a plof and otherwise man really didn’t work for me.

If you have an older Salon account, please enter your username and password below: This is an outstanding novel on many levels. His memories contain great blanks, and the reader could assume it was because of the drugs and alcohol he consumes.