Adam Johnson told in "emporium" of the last people in the high-tech world.
striking in the nine stories that has brought out the love child now publishing in German, is the ever-present sense of threat - or the reaction of the protagonists on it.
Adam Johnson has a preference for to have to run around his characters as policemen, security personnel or otherwise equipped with body armor. In the less successful moments one thinks when reading the archetypes of American action cinema, when marching as "muscle-bound ATF-men in black cargo pants, with short hair and a sneer on his lips" over the screen. Leaving aside, however, to the world of "Emporium" one (and it's not as laid-friendly, so much), has quite the martial its rightful place. And although as a counterpoint to the main characters of the respective stories that reveal in the first-person perspective of their fear, insecurity and paranoia laced world of ideas. There is the best Friend, a robot, and it works in a department store for vests. The highest incidence is delivered in the very first story, "Teen Sniper": the young sniper (only the already bitter) introduces itself with the prints a blooming rose, where the projectile durschlägt the body of the wounded, this "visualization" he avoids For the avoidance of too much empathy with the victim.
A gloomy outlook, the (to stay in the picture above) is clearly on the darker side of action cinema.
Adam Johnson: Emporium. Stories. Munich: Liebeskind Verlag, 2010, 288 pages, 18.90 €.
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