Reviews - El bosque de la noche

651 reviews for:

El bosque de la noche

Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, Ana María de la Fuente

3.41 AVERAGE

melodylee88's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jennyoo's review against another edition

1.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cami19's review against another edition

1.0

challenging mysterious medium-paced

amb04's review against another edition

3.0

reflective tense

kyaoberg's review against another edition

3.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

some parts were very gay - obviously liked those. other parts were the ramblings of a man - obviously didn’t like those.

starnosedmole's review against another edition

4.0

Barnes gets at the heart of how people lie to themselves and absorb the burdens of themselves and others. With poetic language and embittered characters, _Nightwood_ is a force to be reckoned with.

idesofjaim's review against another edition

2.0

challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was very much a, “I wish I’d read this in a literature course so someone could tell me what the heck is going on” type read. While poetic, the writing is very dense and I found myself getting bogged down in it. And whenever the doctor got involved, I very much began losing whatever plot exists and I wondered how intentional that was.

Whenever I did get a foothold of what was going on, I felt very engaged. There were also phrases and exchanges of conversation that really stuck out to me. To say this is a novel of its time is the truth, as demonstrated by some of the language. I was glad to see a mutual feeling among reviews because I was starting to think I’d lost all intelligence with the challenges I was having.