Janusz Wisniewski, "Loneliness in the network": a summary
"From that which is eternal, the shortest period of love"- the lines that became the epigraph of "Loneliness in the network" - the debut of the modern Polish prose writer Janusz Wisniewski. About its content in part can be judged by name. Love, loneliness and the World Wide Web are the three whales on which the novel is built. The actual topic of relations in the network, consonant with many nowadays, attracted a lot of readers. However, not all of them admire the novel.
Reviews about him are both enthusiastic and sublime,and sharply negative. Therefore, those who are still pondering, reading or putting aside "Solitude in the Network", the brief content of this book will come in handy.
History of the creation of the novel
The author wrote his first novel, being underthe impact of a complex life situation. During the receipt of Vishnevsky Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he divorced his wife. As the author himself recalls, he was simply very sad and lonely. And the creation of a literary work seemed to him a better and less expensive option than a visit to a fashion psychotherapist. The debut of the novel took place in 2001.
A short story of the novel
Re-telling "Loneliness in the Network," a shortits content can be represented approximately like this. The novel takes place almost twenty years ago, when the active dissemination of Internet technologies began. The main characters of the story are introduced using the Web. They communicate on different topics, share experiences and feelings, gradually fall in love with each other.
The most part of the book is the correspondence of the heroes. Also the author suggests the reader to get acquainted with their real life, friends, family, work. Behind the virtual dialogue follows a meeting that forever changes the life of the characters, and the ending is unexpected and piercing.
main characters
What else need to remember, retelling"Loneliness in the network"? The description of the book will be incomplete without characterization of the main characters. He is a young, promising scientist, a Pole who moved to Germany. Loneliness and the desire to open up before someone pushes Yakub to virtual relationships.
She is a young, beautiful and lonely woman. Although she has a husband, but family life has long brought no joy, no excitement. And in the relationship there has been a serious crisis. Therefore, she tries to distract herself with the help of virtual communication on the Web, where she accidentally meets with Yakub.
"Loneliness in the network," a summary of whichgiven in the article, can reflect the depth of emotions and sensations inherent in a woman. It is interesting that many critics have called Vishnevsky a real connoisseur of feminine nature and psychology, and this is well manifested in this novel.
The beginning of the book is the development of relations
Those who can not decide whether to read or not"Loneliness in the network," a summary of the chapters will help to understand this. Immediately need to say a few words about how the book is built. It is divided into 10 chapters and an epilogue, and they have no names, but are simply marked with the @ symbol. The narrative is alternately conducted from the point of view of the protagonists.
So, from the first pages the reader gets acquainted withYakub and his lover. In the initial chapters the author tells about their life, work, relationships with surrounding people. Between them begins a correspondence, at first easy and not binding to anything, and after - affecting more and more personal and frank topics.
They communicate about life and science, love and religion,Tell each other about the past and share the present. Their conversations are like experiences or dates, and each time they become more and more tangible.
The climax is a meeting in Paris. Passion and despair
Of course, do not try to retell"Loneliness in the network," a summary can only approximate the meaning of this novel, almost completely filled with feelings, experiences and revelations. Especially when it comes to climax.
So, after several months of weary correspondence with the main characters, finally, there is an opportunity to meet. The appointment is set in Paris, the city of love, happiness and romance.
It is interesting that the meeting itself, which isthe culmination of the whole narrative, occurs only in the middle of the ninth chapter, at the end of the book. Thus, more than eight chapters are devoted to the development of action, to an ever increasing tension.
And this meeting happens in tragic circumstances: the plane on which the protagonist was supposed to fly to his beloved, falls into a catastrophe, and he miraculously avoids death.
The sweet and beautiful becomes their long-awaited meeting, which completely overturns the habitual life of the main characters.
The final
Trying to retell "Loneliness in the network" (summary), the end, perhaps, is not worth describing, it is better to still read this novel and learn everything yourself.
A month and a half after the meeting in Paristhe main character learns about what awaits the child. Not knowing from whom he is, she still assumes that she is from her husband. And decides to stop the relationship with the virtual lover. The novel ends with the birth of a son, whom she names in honor of Yakub. And the epilogue is ambiguous and makes you think for a long time.
Love and Networking
So what is the book "Loneliness in the Network"? Perhaps, about ordinary people, which can be found in any corner of our planet. About love in its different manifestations, as the novel depicts not one tragic relationship story, but several, and all of them are beautiful and surprising in their own way. About what role the Internet plays in the destiny of modern man and how he can change the usual course of life.
There are readers who do not perceive this book, but for many it will become both an outlet, a diary, and perhaps even a kind of mirror of one's own being.
Shielding
In 2006, the screens of cinemas came outadaptation of the novel. Of course, she does not accurately convey the whole story and does not disclose all the "loneliness in the network." The brief content of the book, diluted with many beautiful scenes, is how you can characterize this picture.
However, in a film it is difficult to transfer dynamicallycommunication of heroes, which constitutes the main part of the novel. Nevertheless, the film was a success and already during the first weeks of rental, the fees amounted to a record amount. And in general, the creators of the picture were able to convey the emotions and sensations of the main characters and the tension that the reader has when reading the book.
And the novel differs from the film adaptation of the finale - in the film this love story ends differently. Also, the main heroine touched the changes, unlike the book, now she has a name.
Extended version of "Loneliness ..."
Extended version of the novel is called"Triptych. Loneliness in the network. " The description of the book in this version, if briefly, can be represented as follows. After the publication of the novel, the author received a huge number of letters from readers - more than twenty thousand messages by e-mail.
In them, the fans of "Loneliness ..." shared theirimpressions of the book, as well as amazing not invented stories from his life. Each of them, according to Vishnevsky himself, was in no way inferior to the events depicted in the novel. The author chose and commented on the most interesting of these stories, and they entered the second part of the "Triptych". The final version of the novel was "Post-epilogue", which allows us to take a different look at the last lines of "Loneliness in the Network", as well as some of the events described by Vishnevsky.
Interesting facts about the book
In addition to directly describing personal experiencesheroes, a lot of scientific data and real facts complemented Janusz Vishnevsky "Loneliness in the network." The summary does not give the opportunity to convey all these details, of course, it is better to read the book yourself. However, you can list some of them.
According to Janusz Wisniewski himself, the idea of this book arose long before its writing - back in 1987, but until a certain time he could not put together all its fragments.
The novel depicts several real events. For example, the abduction of the brain of Albert Einstein.
The plane crash described in the penultimate chapter did indeed take place - and, like in the book, July 17, 1996.
Many of the heroes of the novel are real people who have ever been met by the author.
This, of course, is far from everything interesting "Loneliness in the network." The summary allows you to get only an approximate idea of this book.
about the author
Janusz Leon Vishnevsky is today one of the most read and popular writers in Poland. Literature has become a kind of hobby for him, as his main occupation is science.
Novels of Vishnevsky are distinguished by a subtle understandingpsychology, first of all female. Descriptions of emotions and experiences are intertwined unobtrusively with scientific facts. Currently, the writer lives in Germany. He has two daughters, whom he calls the most important women in his life.
The debut and one of the most touching andpiercing novels, which created Vishnevsky - "Loneliness in the network." The summary presented in this article, we hope, aroused interest and prompted the reading of this book. She may not like, but in any case, touches the living and penetrates into the heart. After all, the events described in the novel are relevant for many of us, as well as the topics raised by the writer.
