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lavrendy's review against another edition
4.0
A new crisis/revelation on every page!
“‘Pigs will fly the day you admit you were mistaken.’
I know. When I was young I was perpetually in the wrong and it was so difficult for me to ever be in the right that now I am very reluctant to ever blame myself.”
Are we all like this or are Simone and I just kindred spirits? I feel like I shouldn’t have related as much as I did to these stories of middle aged French women in the 60s?
“‘Pigs will fly the day you admit you were mistaken.’
I know. When I was young I was perpetually in the wrong and it was so difficult for me to ever be in the right that now I am very reluctant to ever blame myself.”
Are we all like this or are Simone and I just kindred spirits? I feel like I shouldn’t have related as much as I did to these stories of middle aged French women in the 60s?
anakuyenhn's review against another edition
4.0
Este libro cuenta tres historias: “La edad de la discreción”, “Monólogo” y “La mujer rota”. En cada una de estas páginas se desgarra un alma, el alma de una mujer que no ha sabido liberarse del otro, a quien fue confinada por medio del matrimonio, y quien con el tiempo las ha traicionado.
La lectura de este libro no es fácil, y no lo digo por complejidad literaria, aunque el relato “Monólogo” es bastante complejo de leer debido a que no contiene más que líneas sin pausas, imagino que simulando la desesperación de esta mujer; sino más bien por la fuerza de los sentimientos que aquí describe cada una de estas mujeres, desde complicaciones sin sentido hasta dolores causados por el otro, a quien las mujeres siempre tratamos de justificar.
Definitivamente esta no es una lectura para relajarse, es una lectura para auto revisarse, auto comprenderse y aprender a ver la vida y las relaciones de manera diferente.
Reseña Completa: La mujer Rota
La lectura de este libro no es fácil, y no lo digo por complejidad literaria, aunque el relato “Monólogo” es bastante complejo de leer debido a que no contiene más que líneas sin pausas, imagino que simulando la desesperación de esta mujer; sino más bien por la fuerza de los sentimientos que aquí describe cada una de estas mujeres, desde complicaciones sin sentido hasta dolores causados por el otro, a quien las mujeres siempre tratamos de justificar.
Definitivamente esta no es una lectura para relajarse, es una lectura para auto revisarse, auto comprenderse y aprender a ver la vida y las relaciones de manera diferente.
Reseña Completa: La mujer Rota
gadicohen93's review against another edition
3.0
I rather liked the first story (The Age of Discretion) more than the last (TWD) and quite loathed the middle story. Simone de Beauvoir write devastating portraits -- the women are strong, proud, and ceaselessly good, and yet are failed and broken by the male figures in their lives. Most of all I appreciated how real the women's thought processes were -- de Beauvoir harvested her own emotional winds and ran them into these characters, and they were more real for it, and their troubles more painful for me to take in.
lexilev's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.0
emily_azzopardi's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
akli's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
yegua_blanca's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
madsmacmath's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Everyone else is right: the third story is the best and reads like a novella. It also helps to go into it with a sense of Simone’s feminist existentialism and the knowledge that the second story is meant to be read stream-of-consciousness, as a monologue.
You hate each of the women at first. They seem stupid and one-dimensional. Who wraps their whole life around these men, their husbands and sons? And somewhere in each of the stories, it dawns on you: it’s you - or your friend, or your aunt, or your mother.
No one thinks they’ll be the woman destroyed until they already are.
You hate each of the women at first. They seem stupid and one-dimensional. Who wraps their whole life around these men, their husbands and sons? And somewhere in each of the stories, it dawns on you: it’s you - or your friend, or your aunt, or your mother.
No one thinks they’ll be the woman destroyed until they already are.
jackstewart_1's review against another edition
5.0
my review of each section:
The age of discretion- I never want to grow old after reading this.
The monologue- female rage, not in a baddie kinda way but in a horribly sad kinda way.
The woman destroyed- and after this, now so am I.
The age of discretion- I never want to grow old after reading this.
The monologue- female rage, not in a baddie kinda way but in a horribly sad kinda way.
The woman destroyed- and after this, now so am I.
annapeichel's review against another edition
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0