Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Maserati Years have come to an end...

The Maserati Years written by Maxim Biller was issued in the New Yorker's fiction on September 24. The author Maxim Biller is German and has lived in Prague and Deutchsland. This story was written in German and then later published into english. The story is about a man, whose proffession is not known, but suggested to be successful actor or model. It seems that his life is not all glamorous due to the way he is living. He is living in the cold and dark house all alone, choosing not to communicate with the outside world. His true person is revealed by his tone of solitude which adds to the already sad story. His girfriend is pregnant and he obviously cannot deal with the stresses that life puts on him. Although a pregnant girlfriend is important, he chooses to only think about his Maserati. This luxiourious car is his life prize and without it he has no recognition of what life is. Biller wrote this story very well and captured the true essence of loneliness and life stresses. I thouroughly enjoyed the story because of its realness and rarity of plots. What was even better is that is was a short simple story with a meaning left to be interpreted by the reader. My interpretation was work hard and don't get lazy.

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