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The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel by Nick Cave (2010)
, 7 Oct 2014
The novel narrates the story of the last days of a compulsive erotomaniac (an unhealthy f*cker and narcissist womaniser, if you prefer it), Bunny Munro, a door to door beauty-products salesman, and his road trip with his 9y.o. son Bunny Junior.
The novel is provocative, like waking up by a jar of cold water dropped on your bed, if you allow me the simile. This is a story for adults with a stomach. If yours is too sensitive, avoid, because the situations described in the book are not politically or morally correct, but life is sometimes like that no matter how much we dislike it.
Cave's construction of the characters, atmosphere and prose are dazzling. The atmosphere has elements of the life in the 1950s and attitudes of the 1970s harmoniously mixed.
Bunny Jnr's character is just wonderful, very well drawn and composed, almost alive; he is a sweet projection of his father's character but with much more spine and emotional maturity than he has at times. The grandfather character is also great; his appearances in the story are episodic and short, but key to understanding many of the things happening in the story.
I absolutely loved the last two chapters, which are very oneiric and hallucinogenic, and a brilliant ending to a brilliant book.
The book is sad, confronting and sweet at equal doses, but also a wonderful piece of literature.
The novel is provocative, like waking up by a jar of cold water dropped on your bed, if you allow me the simile. This is a story for adults with a stomach. If yours is too sensitive, avoid, because the situations described in the book are not politically or morally correct, but life is sometimes like that no matter how much we dislike it.
Cave's construction of the characters, atmosphere and prose are dazzling. The atmosphere has elements of the life in the 1950s and attitudes of the 1970s harmoniously mixed.
Bunny Jnr's character is just wonderful, very well drawn and composed, almost alive; he is a sweet projection of his father's character but with much more spine and emotional maturity than he has at times. The grandfather character is also great; his appearances in the story are episodic and short, but key to understanding many of the things happening in the story.
I absolutely loved the last two chapters, which are very oneiric and hallucinogenic, and a brilliant ending to a brilliant book.
The book is sad, confronting and sweet at equal doses, but also a wonderful piece of literature.
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