Aaron recenserade The intuitionist av Colson Whitehead
The Intuitionist
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Whitehead's vivid imagination is on full display in this novel, which creates a fanciful world of elevator inspectors as an allegory for American race relations. When the inspector Lila Mae is thrust into controversy over an elevator accident, she goes on a dangerous journey in which she comes to question what she thought she knew about "intuitionism," her methodology for inspecting elevators (as opposed to the "empiricists"). The plot has enough twists and turns to keep things moving for the reader, and the world that Whitehead builds is both internally coherent and wholly original.
Whitehead's vivid imagination is on full display in this novel, which creates a fanciful world of elevator inspectors as an allegory for American race relations. When the inspector Lila Mae is thrust into controversy over an elevator accident, she goes on a dangerous journey in which she comes to question what she thought she knew about "intuitionism," her methodology for inspecting elevators (as opposed to the "empiricists"). The plot has enough twists and turns to keep things moving for the reader, and the world that Whitehead builds is both internally coherent and wholly original.