Richard Powers: Operation Wandering Soul (1993) 7/15/07. Well, a nov. "OWS" was a psychological warfare tactic employed to disrupt the enemy during the Vietnam War and Richard Powers adopted it for a title to his book about the plight of children worldwide and across time, a topic sadly relevant today as ever. This is easily the darkest and least accessible Powers novel I've read yet, and I'm not entirely sure whether to admire it or be confounded by it. It was a truly off-the-wall concept that sought to utilize the enemy’s fear of death, limbo, and ghosts in order to hopefully drive them into stark terror, cause them to abandon their posts, and send them screaming into the night. This is one hell of a novel, not surprisingly a National Book Award Finalist. Creative retelling and use of the Pied Piper story set in the children's ward of a major public hospital in Los Angeles. I'm only 50 pages into this book but I cannot even continue reading it. The first 50 or so pages were daunting - but once the rhythms of the novel catch hold you will be amazed that this first rate novelists is not better known. There were also serious doubts as to how much the enemy really bought these recordings as voices from beyond the grave, with arguments that it was the fury of having their culture abused by the foreign enemy that caused such rage filled responses rather than any true fear of wandering spirits or belief that the sounds belching forth from the speakers were real. Good thing I returned to civilization. He is also, for reasons we come to discover during the book, overwhelmed by … These spine chilling voices and sounds were meant to emulate the restless ghosts of the damned who had died far from home on the battlefield and denied a proper burial, thereby ensuring according to Vietnamese custom that they had become some sort of demonic wraiths doomed to eternally wander the land. I could not finish it and I was on a desert island. Amidst tales of weapons of war, mass destruction, and cold blooded murder, there are other tales of our kind using the enemy’s own mind against it; seeking to use superstitions, religion, or entrenched cultural beliefs to cloud their minds, and to stagger and demoralize them. However, we can fin. His novels range across the spectrum of United States taken on industry and cancer (Gain) and so much more. This novel didn't resonate with me at all. The idea was actually quite simple; to exploit a prevalent and powerful superstition among the locals to achieve a tactical advantage. Operation Wandering Soul mostly takes place in Carver Hospital in “Angel City”. Yet the language never fails to convey the pain and loneliness of children in an age when they seem to matter less and less. Operation Wandering Soul is a novel by American author Richard Powers. Wandering Soul is one fascinating example of the psychological operations the United States implemented during the Vietnam War. Speaking of messages from beyond the grave, on the night of February 10 1970 in South Vietnam’s Hậu Nghĩa Province, the jungles came to life with a seemingly omnipresent racket of … Certainly it isn't. Go home my friends before it is too late. Helicopter fitted with speakers for blasting the ghost tape. Operation Wandering Soul byla propagandistická kampaň a rozsáhlý pokus o psychologickou válku prováděný americkými silami během války ve Vietnamu.. Americké síly doufali, že operace by oslabit morálku na Viet Cong a kořist na obavy z mnoha Vietnamců. This involved helicopter-mounted loudspeakers playing simulated Buddhist chants, fabricated sounds of the dead ancestors of the Viet … During my reading of Infinite Jest I printed an interview with Mr. Wallace from salon.com. Whether any of this truly worked or not, Operation Wandering Soul reminds us that not all of the craziness of war is tied up in the merely physical damage it inflicts, and that there seems to be no end to the lengths we are willing to go to torment the enemy and gain some advantage by any means. On many occasions the blasting of these scary recordings was accompanied by the dropping of sinister leaflets designed to further emphasize and enhance the spooky effect. It brings in a lot of other elements, though, including the doctor's own childhood and various fables from around the world. Operation Wandering Soul delivers a frentic kalideoscopical narrative that maps the US incursions into Southeast Asia on the bodies of indigent children in a futuristic Los Angeles Hospital. We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. Opaque to the point of oblivion. I felt like this book was over my head in parts. “If you have children or This drive to demoralize and shake the enemy gave birth to a variety of bizarre and very unique operations meant to capitalize on the cultural beliefs and superstitious nature of the Vietnamese. Perhaps those looking for a challenge would like it more. Operation Wandering Soul requires slow--and multiple--reading, but it repays richly. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Operation Wandering Soul mostly takes place in Carver Hospital in “Angel City”. My Journey Contact Wandering Soul Collective Shop Blog ... You will need a car to get from the entrance station into the Valley, but in a normal operation year, there is a shuttle you can take around the park. "OWS" was a psychological warfare tactic employed to disrupt the enemy during the Vietnam War and Richard Powers adopted it for a title to his book about the plight of children worldwide and across time, a topic sadly relevant today as ever. Stream Operation Wandering Soul by Faust Arp from desktop or your mobile device. Although I thought the ending was nonsensical, I thought the rest of the book was superbly done. The language used throughout is astonishing, conveying the fast descent into madness of the young surgeon and the frenetic activity in the children's ward. It's just all over the place. Your choice. Operation Wandering Soul – Ghost Tape Number 10 and the Haunted Jungles of Vietnam. Operation Wandering Soul may refer to: Operation Wandering Soul (Vietnam War), an American psychological warfare campaign. Too late. The Vietnamese believed that the dead must be properly buried in their own homeland, lest their soul become a shadowy, wandering wraith forever doomed to constantly meander in pain and anguish through a dark hinterland between the worlds of the living in the dead. Exploiting a traditional Vietnamese belief that spirits can never be in peace until their bodies are buried, the noises were produced during the Vietnam War by North America’s Psychological Operations division. A torture to read. The ending was especially confusing, which may be the cause of my relatively low rating for a book I did mostly enjoy. He is also, for reasons we come to discover during the book, overwhelmed by the suffering of the children in his care. The caregivers slowly lose themselves as the pain of caring for terminally ill children overwhelms them. Tags Bizarre historical oddities military mysteries modern mysteries strange experiments Vietnam paranormal Vietnam War. Kraft, a pediatric surgeon, suffers from nostalgia (or PTSD) struggles to save a group of cancer/disease ridden children while the children try to save themselves. It almost read as if the author had something to prove; why else write an entire book with so little actual plot and character development? This will probably always remain a method of conducting war, with the mind every bit as attractive a target as the body. He meets a therapist called Linda Espera and between them they look to treat a group of children who have damaged bodies and souls. Cancel anytime. I think Powers is amazing, a brilliant writer, a treasure. The time seems to be the near future. It’s Hell, Hell! Child abuse most agree is the lowest form of inhumanity, but then how can we rid the world of this bane once and for all? Welcome back. Charles Shelton. The two strong main characters (Dr. Kraft and the girl Joy) are lost in random chapters that don't ever connect to anything. We’d love your help. There is no real hard, objective data to demonstrate just how effective Operation Wandering Soul actually was, and what data there is is muddied by the contradictory reports from the field as to how well it actually worked. The PSYOP unit hired South Vietnamese voice actors to play the role of ghost soldiers and their families lamenting in an echo chamber . Prose like an artillery barrage of mystery, taking life and looking at it from angles you had never considered before. Here, Richard Kraft is a surgeon in the paediatric ward. Colonel Charles Shelton was an Air Force pilot … With this review of Operation Wandering Soul, I also recommend all of Richard Powers' novels. He is overwhelmed by his work load and often runs on autopilot. Go home! His novels force the reader to focus on humanity as a whole rather than the narrower, individualistic focus of traditional novels. Some of the audio tapes used in the Operation Wandering Soul also contained messages from so called Vietnamese people. These “wandering souls,” as they were called, were said to be mostly invisible to the living, but could be contacted on the anniversary of their deaths, when a channel is believed to be formed between the two worlds, or near the spot where they had met their doom. Some of the effects used were recording voices through echo chambers or speeding up or slowing down the audio to produce a ghostly effect. Thus began one of the most bizarre propaganda and psychological terror campaigns of the war. One of my absolute top five novels ever. 10,” and featured ghoulish voices urging the enemy, which they often called their “descendants,” to turn and flee lest they meet the same gruesome fate. Operation Wandering Soul tells the story of a children's ward in "Carver Hospital" from the point of view of Richard Kraft, an overworked surgical resident, and therapist Linda Espera. I don’t know how to rate this. I’d probably have to read it at least 2 more times to truly understand all the levels. The most pessimistic of Powers’s novels, Operation Wandering Soul uses a pediatric surgical ward as the microcosm that exposes what modern American society does to its children. Such recordings were blared in a continuous loop over loudspeakers attached to backpacks and helicopters to echo out into the night in areas where the enemy was thought to be hiding, loud enough to reverberate through the underground tunnels the Viet Cong frequently used, in an effort to get them to go into hiding, defect, fall back, or completely give up the fight. I saw and picked-up leaflets and once heard Funeral Music played over the valleys around Landing Zone Mary Ann. It’s almost as if he wanted to one-up. This exhibition sparked an immediate immersion into the cynicism that only released its grip periodically throughout the book. His body cannot be identified, his grave cannot be marked, and his soul will never find rest. On one occasion the sounds led … Adults? His novels force the reader to focus on humanity as a whole rather than the narrower, individualistic focus of traditional novels. I am dead! While Operation Wandering Soul was certainly not the first such psychological warfare mission and will definitely not be the last, it still remains one of the strangest. The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in the "wandering soul": "It is the Vietnamese belief that the dead must be buried in their homeland, or their soul will wander aimlessly in pain and suffering. In an Operation like WANDERING SOUL, which was intended to strike at Vietnamese cultural norms present in North Vietnam and their fellow Viet Cong insurgents in the south, it was unavoidable to suppress program operations from affecting your everyday citizens of South Vietnam. It was a finalist for the National Book Award . Do you hear what I say? There were problems with using the tape, in that there were those, in particular the South Vietnamese, who questioned the morality of using such methods to gain the upper hand; callously capitalizing on local fears and traditions. Wandering Soul Collective Shop Blog Halle's Wandering Soul. It was my only book. Google it to see the relevance to Powers' novel. Kraft, a pediatric surgeon, suffers from nostalgia (or PTSD) struggles to save a group of cancer/disease ri. Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. I had not a clue. nope. The caregivers slowly lose themselves as the pain of caring for terminally ill children overwhelms them. However, there are many more reports that speak of the tape having other effects of varying success. Operation Wandering Soul by Faust Arp published on 2016-12-08T16:04:43Z. Hurry! This was a ghostly sound. Trying to Contain Extreme Emotion by Writing Brilliant Prose. There were also concerns voiced over the effectiveness of the sounds in causing defections, as how would the enemy possibly choose to defect when they knew that they were almost always immediately fired upon when coming out of hiding upon hearing the ghost tapes? To this end, the U.S. military recruited Vietnamese nationals as voice actors to sequester themselves away in a recording studio to produce a creepy, twisted set of ominous recordings. The world is exactly the way we know it to be, only worse. Child abuse most agree is the lowest form of inhumanity, but then how can we rid the world of this bane once and for all? Since the majority of the Viet Cong fighters were most certainly not to be afforded a proper burial and would die far from their homes, the operation that was to be called Operation Wandering Soul meant to exploit this ancient belief in order to rattle and terrorize the enemy, disorient them, or to even cause them to abandon their war efforts all together. In a strange mound, no incense where your bodies are buried. But it is the final resting place, many, many kilometers from the graves of his ancestors. It almost read as if the author had something to prove; why else write an entire book with so little actual plot and character development? that's how I got to this one, through my love of the author. One of my. Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. More By and About This Author. "Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes." Dengar Suara-suara Kematian dari Rekaman “Operation Wandering Soul” Buat kamu yang penasaran, peneliti dan perwira dalam operasi psikologis pasukan AS (PSYOP), Sersan Mayor (Purn) Herbert A. Friedman telah berbaik hati merilis audio asli yang digunakan dalam Operation Wandering Soul … Refresh and try again. National Book Award Finalist From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of storytelling. All of his books weave together seemingly incongruent worlds. A book I certainly need to reread because, I no doubt, missed some essential points because of the many layers. Part of what they were involved in was sonic deception, putting loud speakers in the battlefield to create a false impression. It must have been effective as hell in the jungle at night. We are willing to try and manipulate and warp our fellow man’s mind just as much as we are willing to maim and destroy the body. Operation: Wandering Soul. Home About. His novels range across the spectrum of United States taken on industry and cancer (Gain) and so much more. The resulting compilation of recordings was unofficially often called “Ghost Tape No. But when I realized the truth, it was too late. Yet looking through the tapestry of death, destruction and blood that is scrawled over our history it is easy to be overwhelmed by the violence and to overlook the many ways we have attacked not physically, but psychologically. And hellish it is too, for it depicts the inner (and outer) life of surgeon Richard Kraft as he works day and night in the emergency … I found the parallel stories/metaphor of the Pied Piper, the children's crusade, and the dying children in a pediatric oncology floor in an LA hospital very moving. Operation Wandering Soul. This was very evocative in its tone, and was full of medical expertise, but in the end, this blowsy novel about a surreal children's hospital in southern California left me in the waiting room from hell .... Overwritten even for Powers, so much that I couldn’t make it past halfway. This has the brilliance I expect from Richard Powers: a deft and complex use of language conveying the convolutions of emotional inner lives. The U.S. Army had a ghoulishly creative trick up their sleeve for Viet Cong insurgents in 1970. It … I have no idea what is going on and some pages had me falling asleep. Ultimately the book is a kind of elegy for childhood in our modern and fast paced society. To see what your friends thought of this book, I have decidedly mixed feelings about this one, and four stars may be too generous - as so often with Powers it is full of ideas and references - indeed it would have taken more than twice as long to read if I had looked up all of the unfamiliar words, events and scientific elements that Powers discusses. I found the parallel stories/metaphor of the Pied Piper, the children's crusade, and the dying children in a pediatric oncology floor in an LA hospital very moving. During the Vietnam War, while engaged in bloody battle with a tenacious, resourceful enemy that seemed to come from nowhere, the American forces were becoming increasingly desperate for ways to break the will and morale of the Viet Cong. Richard Powers is introspective. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. (Image source: WikiCommons) “Vietnamese legends held that on the anniversary of a person’s death, a spiritual channel between our world and the afterlife can open making communication possible. The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in the "wandering soul": "It is the Vietnamese belief that the dead must be buried in their homeland, or their soul will wander aimlessly in pain and suffering. These audio tapes would echo throughout war zones, their soundtracks consisting of actors portraying grieving … 10.” In 1969 and 1970, American troops deployed similar recordings across South Vietnam with mixed success. Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. He mentioned his favorite contemporaries, among which was Richard Powers. National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1993), national book awards 1985-1994 and 2015-2019. Operation Wandering Soul delivers a frentic kalideoscopical narrative that maps the US incursions into Southeast Asia on the bodies of indigent children in a futuristic Los Angeles Hospital. I am slowly reading Powers forward, as I first read The Echo Maker when it was published and was completely captivated. A torture to read. Copyright © Mysterious Universe. Powers is absolutely brilliant intellectually (this may be greatest strength and fault). ›. He is overwhelmed by his work load and often runs on autopilot. Forces during the Vietnam War. . I felt like this book was over my head in parts. Operation Wandering Soul Richard Powers, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-11548-7. I liked it, but not enough to read it 2 more times, especially because there is no guarantee I would understand it any better at that point. Yet the language never fails to convey the pain and loneliness of children in an age when they seem to matter less and. Unfortunately, it is not. Buy for $34.99 Buy for $34.99 Confirm purchase No default payment method selected. The results of all of this seem to have been quite mixed. Go home, my friends! Certainly it isn't a light read, but a worthwhile one if you've got the attention for it. this was nominated for a National Book Award? Creative retelling and use of the Pied Piper story set in the children's ward of a major public hospital in Los Angeles. The ending was especially confusing, which may be the cause of my relatively low rating for a book I did mostly enjoy. It seems that it was at best only sporadically effective, although there are those who believe that even if the recordings did not have any noticeable, visible impact at the time, it still would have had at least had some form of demoralizing effect in making the enemy face their fears of dying far from home, having some latent effect even if it was not immediately noticeable. I read it at the exact perfect moment in my life and I still hold it in high esteem. Hell, listening to that made me want to Chieu Hoi myself. “If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul. Start by marking “Operation Wandering Soul” as Want to Read: Error rating book. With this review of Operation Wandering Soul, I also recommend all of Richard Powers' novels. The Last P.O.W. Looking back through our long history of war is like looking through an encyclopedia of the numerous injustices and atrocities our kind is willing to inflict upon each other. Powers is absolutely brilliant intellectually (this may be greatest strength and fault). The ending though did not make a whole lot of sense. by William Morrow Paperbacks. For me the biggest problem is that the plot, such as it is, is so full of digressions and so dominated by it's central character's increasingly frazzled state of mind that it becomes very difficult to follow. Miscellaneous Operation Wandering Soul was nominated for a National Book Award. It feels a bit like showing off — intense vocabulary and depth. Operation Wandering Soul was designed to exploit a Vietnamese belief that death far away from home meant becoming a restless spirit, doomed to wander aimlessly for eternity. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. To read this book is to voluntarily open yourself to unanesthetized soul surgery. The recordings were distributed among American units, many of which made their own tweaks, additions to, and remixes of the tape, leading to a plethora of different versions. In one instance typical of these tapes, a man’s ghostly voice surrounded by a blood curdling medley of spooky sounds laments: My friends, I come back to let you know that I am dead! His title comes from the Vietnam War. Richard Powers: Operation Wandering Soul (1993) 7/15/07. This is one hell of a novel, not surprisingly a National Book Award Finalist. Certainly one of the stranger, and indeed more chilling, examples of such psychological warfare was born from the minds of the U.S. Army’s 6th PSYOP battalion during the late 1960s. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? David Foster Wallace vouched for this book, so I read it. Operation Wandering Soul took advantage on Vietnamese or Buddhist beliefs on life after death. [it] is bedtime reading for the future.” —USA Today . I have decidedly mixed feelings about this one, and four stars may be too generous - as so often with Powers it is full of ideas and references - indeed it would have taken more than twice as long to read if I had looked up all of the unfamiliar words, events and scientific elements that Powers discusses. There was a a lot of promise in this novel about a pediatric surgeon but Powers seemed to lose control in the second half and obfuscated the prose to the degree that the emotional impact of the book was nullified and the pleasure I was experiencing was lost. I came across a copy of this a month later, perhaps? The tool used was audio recordings designed specifically to contain mystic and disturbing sounds. How senseless! Nominally, it's the story of a jaded young doctor working in a charity hospital in LA and how he comes to care about his patients, some of whom are children with rare, uncurable diseases. Here, Richard Kraft is a surgeon in the paediatric ward. ‹ The template below ( Disambiguation) is being considered for merging. Stejně jako mnoho jiných zahrnuje vietnamská kultura víry a rituály, které prokazují úctu k mrtvým. Be the first to ask a question about Operation Wandering Soul. A Kit Carson Scout told me what the music was. Nevertheless a sense of hopefulness emerges as the retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to its inevitable end. In the end it did not matter that the ghosts were not real, only that the enemy believed that they were, and great efforts were made to try and ensure that they did. Over the course of a few weeks, sound engineers and these South Vietnamese volunteers went to work recording a series of eerie voices that were altered, engineered and remixed to make them as otherworldly and terrifying as possible, and which were joined by a cacophony of other bizarre sounds, such as funeral music, mournful wailing, sobbing, shrieking, screaming, the banging of metal gongs, and even the sound of an angry tiger’s growl, all made to sound as preternatural as the technology would allow. There were many moments when I was a hummingbird's flutter from throwing the book across the room. It is a senseless death! Whatever the enemy was thinking when they heard these demonic, phantom voices and unearthly noises echoing through the jungle night and pervading the humid air amongst the clouds of mosquitoes, gun smoke, and the smell of death, the effect was certainly unsettling, with one former American 1st Infantry Division sergeant saying of the tape: The damn reverb effect of the recording is eerie. Opaque to the point of oblivion. Created by the U.S. Army during the American War in Vietnam, "Ghost Tape #10" was one of many tapes engineered as part of "Operation: Wandering Soul," a psychological operations campaign designed to intimidate and demoralize the North Vietnamese Army. There is beauty in the individual; as a mass, we are a disaster. Work completed to date. If not, you will end up like me. Since the majority of the Viet Cong fighters were most certainly not to be afforded a proper burial and would die far from their homes, the operation that was to be called Operation Wandering Soul meant to exploit this ancient belief in order to rattle and terrorize the enemy, disorient them, or to even cause them to abandon their war efforts all together. There were many moments when I was a hummingbird's flutter from throwing the book across the room. Got me through my son's surgeries. It's just not enjoyable enough for me to finish. So did all of this work? Known as "Operation Wandering Soul," the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (6th PSYOP) of the U.S. Army, with help from the U.S. Navy, broadcast spooky sounds fit for a modern horror movie and called it "Ghost Tape Number 10" (listen to the audio here). So convincing were these sinister recordings that it was common practice to make sure that the South Vietnamese allies would not accidentally overhear them, as they were just as potentially susceptible to the psychological effects as the North Vietnamese enemy was, and so the tapes were kept under wraps to be only used out in the field amongst the enemy. It was wonderful. There is no in between with Richard Powers’ books either they’re great or they suck. This one sucked. – As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. SoundCloud. Operation Wandering Soul was very nearly one of them. In the pediatrics ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick children is gathering. Some units reported that the recordings had absolutely no effect on the enemy whatsoever, and that the North Vietnamese clearly understood that it was all a ruse meant to rile them up. . This would allow the souls of their MIAs to find rest. My only criticism is that sometimes it was difficult to extract the plot from the stream of consciousness of the main character. I read it at the exact perfect moment in my life and I still hold it in high esteem. This book is touching. do yourself a favor and read Orfeo & The Time Of Our Singing. Hurry! Friends, while you are still alive, there is still a chance you will be reunited with your love ones. It was all part of a U.S. campaign called Operation Wandering Soul. The language used throughout is astonishing, conveying the fast descent into madness of the young surgeon and the frenetic activity in the children's ward. Another such leaflet prominently features a startling, haunting image of a dead North Vietnamese soldier sprawled out unceremoniously across the mud, followed with the text: Is this a grave? 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