Neuromaani by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas
Romaani
This one-of-a-kind 2012 Finnish novel is at once a brain-science thriller, campus satire and “choose-your-own-adventure” labyrinth: every few pages the narrator gives the reader branching instructions, sending them ricocheting through numbered micro-chapters, footnotes and false leads as two neuroscientists’ shady research empire collides with a hallucinatory murder case in Turku. Jaakko Yli-Juonikas’s exuberant remix of academic jargon, occult motifs and slapstick wordplay earned Neuromaani the 2013 Jarkko Laine Prize and, thanks to Markus Pyörälä’s intricately annotated dust-jacket, Finland’s “Most Beautiful Book” award for 2012. Though still untranslated, the novel is now a cult touchstone of 21st-century Finnish postmodernism for the way it makes the reader’s own choices—and missteps—part of its dizzy critique of scientific hubris and narrative authority.
The 10187th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 2012
- Nationality
- Finnish
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- Finnish
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- 19th on Honorable Mention - The 25 Masterpieces of World Literature That Will Define the 21st Century (25-250) (Télérama)