The Circle
Title | The Circle |
Year for Search | 2013 |
Authors | Eggers, Dave(b. 1970) |
Date Published | 2013 |
Publisher | Penguin |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians. |
Info Notes | A film directed by James Adam Ponsoldt (b. 1978) and written by Ponsoldy and Eggers was released in 2017. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The author (b. 1970) is the founder of McSweeney's. |
Full Text | 2013 Eggers, Dave (b. 1970). The Circle. New York: Penguin. PSt The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians. A film directed by James Adam Ponsoldt (b. 1978) and written by Ponsoldy and Eggers was released in 2017. The author is the founder of McSweeney's. |