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corallig's review against another edition
2.5
"Ich glaube, sie hatte angenommen, nachdem Lance durch das Eis gebrochen war, würde ich mir außer ihr keine zweite Liebe zulegen. Aber ist das nicht eher eine Anmaßung als eine Annahme? Und meine kurze Pause des Nachdenkens endete, wo sie begonnen hatte, mit der einen feststehenden Tatsache, daß Lieben sich in die Quere kommen: das wenigstens war so klar und verwirrend für mich wie jedes Naturgesetz."
"Du hast dich in mein Leben eingebrannt, du wirst dich wieder herausbrennen, und ich werde ausgebrannt hinter dir zurückbleiben wie ein Dorf mit strohgedeckten Hütten, das du angesteckt und geplündert und verwüstet hast."
"Du hast dich in mein Leben eingebrannt, du wirst dich wieder herausbrennen, und ich werde ausgebrannt hinter dir zurückbleiben wie ein Dorf mit strohgedeckten Hütten, das du angesteckt und geplündert und verwüstet hast."
kian_kraemer's review against another edition
4.0
well, this beautiful mess of a book lives in my head rent-free now and i'm not sure yet if that's a good thing...
merricupofstars's review
dark
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
kian_kraemer's review against another edition
4.0
well, this beautiful mess of a book lives in my head rent-free now and i'm not sure yet if that's a good thing...
bribeatris's review against another edition
5.0
First book I ever read of Tennessee Williams and ADORED IT. Opened up my eyes to all of his works and how much I now love them
eriknoteric's review
2.0
Wow, who knew that when I picked up this book I was actually choosing to read Tennessee Williams' autobiographical novel? "Moise and the World of Reason" is one of William's rare forays into the novel genre, and such forays were rare, apparently, for a reason.
Telling the story of a failed gay writer and his interactions with a failed painter, both who live in Manhattan, Williams' novel grates against the normal tenets of literary writing by messing with sentence structure, paragraph ordering, and narrative story telling. Admittedly, many of the writing and formatting choices Williams makes in this book would translate beautifully played out on stage but in fact fall horribly flat (and make reading this book a real slog) when composed as prose. If anything, the writing of this novel proves that Williams was indeed the dramaturgical genius he has become in the canon.
And beyond the slog of reading the pretty choppy prose, the book itself is so clearly a retelling of Williams romantic failures, that reading it carries the same feeling of reading some famous person complain about how not-famous they are on social media.
But, with all this said, I can't help but wonder if this is one of those rare books I just simply didn't like despite it having true literary merit. And this is why this book is one of those rare books that I am giving a low rating to but encouraging you to still pick up.
Telling the story of a failed gay writer and his interactions with a failed painter, both who live in Manhattan, Williams' novel grates against the normal tenets of literary writing by messing with sentence structure, paragraph ordering, and narrative story telling. Admittedly, many of the writing and formatting choices Williams makes in this book would translate beautifully played out on stage but in fact fall horribly flat (and make reading this book a real slog) when composed as prose. If anything, the writing of this novel proves that Williams was indeed the dramaturgical genius he has become in the canon.
And beyond the slog of reading the pretty choppy prose, the book itself is so clearly a retelling of Williams romantic failures, that reading it carries the same feeling of reading some famous person complain about how not-famous they are on social media.
But, with all this said, I can't help but wonder if this is one of those rare books I just simply didn't like despite it having true literary merit. And this is why this book is one of those rare books that I am giving a low rating to but encouraging you to still pick up.
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