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beccaej's review
adventurous
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
cleaper's review
1.0
This book is awful!! I ended up skimming the last 100 pages just to be done with it.
brynebo's review
1.0
I really struggled through this one. In fact, I took me the whole month to make myself finish when I usually read at least two or three books a month. I should have left it unfinished and moved on but my bookclub was reading Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, also by Sijie, which I had already read, and I wanted to read something by the same author to contribute. Then I missed the meeting! Balzac was much better.
morebedsidebooks's review
slow-paced
3.0
Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch (Le Complexe de Di) by Chinese author Dai Sijie is the story of a devotee of Freud and Lacan who after over a decade aboard on scholarship in France returns to his homeland of China. Mr. Muo embarks on train or bicycle along with attempts at likewise traveling the unconscious of himself and a motely list of others he meets.
Although it can read like it may be missing the mirth in the same way translated English title loses the pun. See my blog for an in-depth review.
Although it can read like it may be missing the mirth in the same way translated English title loses the pun. See my blog for an in-depth review.
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Violence, Confinement, Sexual content, and Death
Minor: Incest, Suicide, and Sexual assault
Capital punishment is also a subject in the book.tamara_joy's review against another edition
Not my thing.
Minor: Sexual content