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| Title | : | Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife |
| Author | : | Sam Savage |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 162 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2006 by Coffee House Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Writing. Books About Books. Humor. Animals |
Sam Savage
Paperback | Pages: 162 pages Rating: 3.5 | 6153 Users | 787 Reviews
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Firmin is a rat born in a book (a shredded copy of Finneggans Wake), who finds the books he consumes also consume his soul. He becomes a vagabond and philosopher, struggling with mortality and meaning. In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation. A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page. First published by Coffee House Press in 2006. Republished by Delta, a division of Random House, in 2009.Define Books Supposing Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
| Original Title: | Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife |
| ISBN: | 1566891817 (ISBN13: 9781566891813) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mama Flo, Norman Shine , Jerry Magoon, Firmin |
| Setting: | Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Adult Fiction (2007) |
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Ratings: 3.5 From 6153 Users | 787 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
If Dostoevsky had written the screenplay for Ratatouille, it would probably end up looking something like this. The main character of the story is a well-read rat who lives in a bookstore and longs to be a part of humanity. This book is a strange one, but I think that's part of its charm. Savage handles themes of literature, loneliness, isolation, depression, and unlikely friendship in a beautifully grotesque way. His prose has a beauty to it, but its shrouded in hopelessness. I would notThis is, without a doubt, one of the most unusual books I've ever read. At first glance, I thought it was a childrens book. It's definitely NOT a childrens book. It's an adult novel about...a rat. This rat, Firmin, identifies with humans more than other rats. This is due to the fact that as a baby, and as the runt of the litter, he had to turn to eating books because he couldn't compete with his bigger, greedier brothers and sisters for food. Ingesting these books caused him to learn how to
Beautiful, tragic, and wildly creative. Firmin is a rat who is born on a shredded copy of Finnigan's Wake in the basement of a bookshop, and consequently falls in love with literature. Stuck in a sea of rats too simpleminded to understand his intellectual depths and humans he cannot communicate with, he struggles to find happiness.This book made me laugh, cry, and think. But mostly, it spoke to my soul. I would recommend it to anyone who has ever found solace within the pages of a book.
The main character is a rat. A rat who suffers from despair because he can never be more than a rat. A rat who reads to escape his existence. A rat who imagines and creates fantasies in order to survive his undesired lot in life. If you are a person who cannot handle anthropomorphism, try and read the book as metaphor for the outsiders/others that live on the fringes of civilized societies.
"It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had."I loved this book, because this was a book for me. It's for people who love books -- sci-fi paperbacks as well as the classics -- but are still somewhat cynical
This was a book I picked up from my travels. After reading the back of it I decided the premise sounded really quite different and interesting. It is quite different being rather melancholy, at the same time it is fascinating. I cannot really go in to it without giving anything away however the writing style is both easy to read and conveys many deep and personal feelings at the same time. I think what appeals to me is that as the character explores reading you see how his life becomes more
Again, I must be a voice of dissent here. I loved this novella. It is written from the perspective of a rat who was born in a bookstore to an alcoholic-mother in a litter of other rat-like rats. Firmin is of course different from his brothers and sisters: he possesses a yearning for knowledge and a loneliness that he obliquely recognizes as the loneliness of the human condition--particularly among those humans whose lives he vicariously observes. This makes him a liminal figure at home neither
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